The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-08-25

ker. The application was heard at Z.
Nj. before Judge Mackey, Parker's counsel
claiming his discharge under the provision
Of the constitution prohibiting inprison-
ment for debt. The sheriiFtailed toallege
that the case was ola off FRAUD. charge
which il expressly excepted IN the constr
,utional prohibition Of imprisonment for
debt.
After the argumnnt, the judge released
the prisoner.
The court room was filled with an excit-
ed crowd, and Parker was Immediately
re arrested on criminal warrant for grand
larceny. llisccunsel waived m examina-
,iun, aud urging TINT the amount involved
il the alleged robbery had nothing to do
with the amount Of bail, succeeded in get
ting him released on $1,000 bail. IL is
generally believed that Parker will escape
aud furfeit the bait.
The News and Courier denounccs the
release OF Parker as grvss judicial out
rage and job put up BY certain State Of
fcals who feared that Parker would Inn
plicate them in his enormous robberies.
After his release last night Parker went
to his house. aud afterwards took the train
for Augusta, Ga. Probably BIO will never
again be Scent South Caroliua.
New York, Aug. ls.-Wm. B. Dun.
can, Of the firm Of d. 5. &Co; has publish
ed circular in which be proposes 70 credi-
ktors to pay 3Sl per cent III full settlement
Of the Indebtedness Of the firm, about As
per cent being che proportion Of the assets
to the liabilities shown By the assignee's
statement. lie offers TO pay il in install
lments from November 9th, 1875 to No
vember 18th, 1877, with interest at per
cent per annum unit! paid. As security
for this. the assets are 10 be held and nd
ministered by Dir. Duncan. under advice
ola committee. consisting Of X. Il. Ken
nedy. president Of National Bank Of Com.
merce. aud Geo. W. Drierprest. Noional
Bank Of New York. Mr.. Duncan also
saws that should the assets bring more than
33s per cent; the creditors will have the
benefit thereof
| Augusta. Ga; Aug. l8.-There was
much excitement to-day in Washington aud
jefferson counties, on account Of reported
atiemp; By the negroes at lnsurrec;ion
Eighty arrests were made. and the white,
military companies in these counties ORDER
ed to report 10 the sheriff. The prisoners
were all lodged in Jail.
The alleged plot contemplated massacre
Of the whites on the 10th instant. Ii il
thought now there will b no further trou.
bic. though details are meagre and inded-
ute.
St. joseph. Mo; Aug. 8.--An accident
occurred yesterday on the st. Louis aud ST.
Joseph branch Of the st Louis, Kansas
City and Northern railroad. As train
was passing over the trestIe-work over Dry
Branch, six miles south Of Goye's station,
Clinton county. the structure gave way pre-
cipitating the mail. express and two pas
senger cars down distance Of twenty feet
One person was killed and forty injured
BinghamptOn, NY; Aug. lS.--IIeavy
rains this evening caused a serious break
on the Eric rsilwaya at Cascade Rayine,
three miles east uf Susquehanna depot
The break j. 800 feet hong and $50 feet
deep. through which stream is now run
ming. No trains from New York have got
through to-day. The eastern bound trains
take the Delaware. Loo havana and West
ern track from here. The storm is over.
and barometer is rising
New York, Aug. 1s.-Mr. Newell. re-
ceiysr Of the Erie Railway Company las
! filed bis inventory IN the county clerks
, Office showing the receipts and disLure
, ments since bis appointment. The total
receipts from the date Of Bis appointment
to the last ofJune. 0! which be gives daily
items, arc So. 1872. 0uS total disbursements
$3.50. Cos; on hand. 1882. 403.
Syracuse. n. y; Aug. discharges
g have been preferred against Hon. A. G..
E Powell. salt superintendent. for malfcas-
) ance IN Office. Governor TIlden has cited
him 10 appear before bin on "Wednesday
next and show cause why he should not be
removed. Mr.. Powell was appointed sali
9 superintendent in the spring Of 1874 b.
: Governor Dix.
Augusta. Ga; Aug. I9.--Anesis 81 Al.
L legged negro insurreriionis,s IN johnson.
Washington. and Jefferson counties were
continued to- day. Thirteen armed negroe.
came into Wnghtyil!c aud surrendered
themselves.
{ 10 Burke county collision between the
i whites and blacks seems hourly iMiainent.
Both races are nnde- arm. and the negroes
are reported masscd few miles from
!. Waynesboro.' White scouts were Cred on
: by negroes this morning. Tie Burke
/ county people sent here to-day for troops,
!. but Governor Smith declined 10 let ans ii
the companies 60. A number Of yolun.
: teers left for wsynesboro' tonight. and ii
= is feared 6ght will soon take place. A.
4 bout one hundred arrests have been made
IL The different counties.
a dispatch from Washington county re.
ports affairs quieter to-day than yesterday
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