The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-29

PHILADELPHTA. July %. The English
centennial commits toner's have broke the
ground for their buildings, four in number.
KEY WEST, July 22.-Yellow fever as
an epidemic has aoOut exs nded its force.
No new decided cases II The last five days.
(Signed,) j. v. HARRIS,
Heath Officer"
Baltimore, July 22.-In the convention
Governor Groome withdrew. John Lee
Carroll and VIM. T. Hamilton were nomi-
mated, the result being, Carroll go, Hamil-
ton so. The financial plank in the plat
form firmly opposes any imitation of the cur
rency, and favors the resumption of specie
payment at the earliest possible moment.
HARTFORD. July 22.-At an encampment
of several thousand old soldiers and six
hundred Andersonville prisoners several
addresses were made, Gen. Hawley con-
Guiding. He referred to the centennial,
which he hoped would prove great love
feast, bringing together in harmony and
brotherly love the people of the North and
South. He said: Now, we have one more
victory to win, the hearts of our late an
tagnnists."
NEWCASTLE, July 22.-E. B. Frazer,
sentenced to life imprisonment in the New
castle Jail, and who has been confined there
for ten years, made his escape tor the sec
| oAN SiLiO opOub " ClOCh IHlS hOTuluS. n
bar had been forced off his Jail by jack
that had been secretly conveyed to the pris-
oner. How he escaped over the wall is
still mystery.
GALIIPoLIs, o., July 22.-Gov. Allen,
George III. Pendleton and others addressed
Dem ocratic meeting. Pendleton's inter
probation of the financial plank in the plat
| form is a cessation of contraction; a
sound and sufficient currency; promoting
of industries; the surest road to the appre-
cation of paper to par with gold green
backs instead of national bank notes !;
greenbacks for customs to the extent that
the necessities of the government will per-
nit. He announced himself u hard money
man, but would not rush ruthlessly back to
| specie payment over the prostitution of all
business and the ruin of the debtor.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 23.-The Ala
bama State Journal, the OILY Republican
daily in the State, appears tomorrow under
the proprietorship of Thomas C.. Bingham,
for four years business manager, and John
Bardex. Governor Sam Bard will be chief
editor, and n. B. Cloud agricultural editor.
1t is Iumored that the paper under this
| regime will ADVOCATED the third term Gov
ernor Bard will Slso have the Daily Ad-
canoe, soon to 1e established at Atlanta.
GLOUCESTER, N. j., July 23.-Johnson
won the swimming race. Coyle, who was
mile ahead when he failed, was at the
eighth mile. Johnson passed the point
and was declared the winner. He showed
no signs of exhaustion. Coyle is very low
tonight. His pulse is at twenty-eight.
The physicians are apprehensive. johnson
made ten and a half miles in three hours
| and ten minutes. Es- rt5
| ATLANTA, Ga, July %. "A convention
| 6 r.; n, II,
| day. There was large attendance. The
subject of freights was not settled rs far as
the South Carolina railroads is concerned.
| SARATOGA, July 23.-In the bankers con-
vention to-day a resolution against the
usury laws was adopted by close vote.
The convention has adjourned sine die.
| II. P. McGath has brought suit of
$50, 900 against the Spirit Of the Times for
an article published in that paper last
week. Papers were served on the parties
to-day.
| WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA. July 3d.
A full attendance; quite an audience, In
Guiding ladies; rules read and approved;
regular business nomination.; president,
vice presidents and seven directors elected.
J Mr.. Phillips, president; vice presidents,
| Stephen Harrison, of New York; A. G.
Herring, of Augusta, Georgia. Charles A.
Wesson, of New York. Mr.. Harrison was
elected on first ballot. After some ballot
| ing, the following were elected directors:
Z. G. Stone, of Galveston; w. L.. Trenholm,
of Charleston, South Carolina; Henry Hall,
of Mobile, Alabama; J. W. Lathrop, of
Savannah, Georgia; A. w. Goodman, of
Memphis; j. Il. Wheeler, of Nashville ::
| w. G. Reynolds, of Norfolk. Addresses of
thanks by each successful candidate pres
emit. A resolution that the president ap-
point committee on insecurity was adopt
ed. The president named Wheeler, of
Nashville; Wheelock, of New York !;
! Pinckney, of Charleston. NJ. Eastley, of
New Orleans, moved that the convention
recommend Congress to urge the early com
pletion of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
and to accept the proposition made by COL
T. A. Scott. Adopted without discussion.
Pinckney, of Charleston, moved that two
grades be established, additional to those
| adopted at the last convention, to be
known as middling fair and fair and the
convention of classifcations of New York
requested to put up the same and forward
to other exchanges.
CINCINNATI, July ga. J. Cochran and
Thomas E. Edwards have been committed
at Gereenup, Illinois, for the murder of
engineer Eames in the late attempted ex-
press robbery.
CINCINNATI, July 23.-Reports from the
entire length of the Ohio valley state that
the heaviest rain of the season fell during
the past twenty four hours. 1t is estimated
that TO- 600 acres of corn are under water
in the Wabash bottom. Throughout Ken
lucky and Southern Ohio all the streams
are rising. The river at Charlestown rose
fifteen feet in twenty-iour hours. Great
damage to crops must result from this
severe storm.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-J. Daugherty,
of Philadelphia, was drowned to-day while
bathing.
LEWISTON, Me-, July 23.-The National
Bank of Milthrop was burglarized, and
the vaults and safe of the Savings Bank
opened.
CoRINTH, July 23.-Lamar was nomi-
mated for Congress by reclamation.
LITTLE Rock, July 23.-Joseph e. John
ston was elected president of the Arkansas
Industrial University.
WINTHROP, Maine, July 24.-The rob-
berry of the Winthrop National Bank was
bold operation. The safe was blown open
with glycerine, as is supposed, there being
no indications of powder. There were
distinct explosions, all of which were heard
by several persons. The robbers left with
in ten minutes of the last explosion, which
was so severe as to blow out all the windows
in the front part of the bank, and cause a
general smash-up inside. The contents of
the main safe were so badly mutilated, and
so many fragments were left, that it is
thought the amount realized by the robbers
could not have been large. The capital
stock of the bank is one hundred thousand
dollars, and the amount of the deposits in
the savings bank was about one hundred
| thousand dollars The safes of both instis
tutions were riied of their contents. The
standing bank directors say they will not
be impaired. A dispatch says four men
were arrested on suspicion, near Bethel,
a distance from here of about forty miles.
1t is doubtful whether they could have gone
so far in the time they had had.
CHARLESTON, s. c., July PA fire oc-
Cured this morning IN the section of the
| city known as "Godstein's Wharf, de-