Richland beacon., 1875-05-01
News in Brief.

is dead
Gen. Brcckinridgc is very danger
Ou,ly i'll.
Ar,hnr Il Barrett, Mayor Of st
Louis, is d. al
Gold in New Orleans on Monday
was quoted at 10
Their. was severe snow storm IN
New York State last Saturday.
Rev. W. l.. SeIwin, Queen Veto
ria's chaplain, aged 60, is dead.
f. VI Ycrger, formerly of Missis-
sippi, died in Baltimore last week.
\. K. st. John, aged - years,
suicided in New York last Saturday.
4 linSccd oil factory burned in
New York last Saturday. Loss $780,
600.
John VI. Carver of New York. has
been arrested on dcralcation of 3d.
600.
The Mcxicans are still raidirS Oh
the Texas frontier and numbering
citizens.
Thirty-four per cent of the Western
wheat crop is reported destroyed by
the cold weather.
They had a severe hail STERN in
several parts Of Mississippi last week,
doing considerable damage
The ,hicvng cashier Of the llobok-
en- Savings Bank has been scnlcncrd
To ten years Imprisonment.
No bodies Of the victims Of the
steamboat disaster at New Orleans
had been recovered up to Monday.
Fergus Fnsclicr, a prominent mem
ler of the New Orleans bar, fell dead
on Monday morning from apopleXy.
Cotton was quoted in Liverpool on
Monday, UplaudS, I'D; Orleans,
I'D III New Orleans, from IA 10
I7c.
They have jailed the former State
Treasurer of South Carolina, for his
embellishments, vulgarly known as
thcfts.
Mr.. VIM. +. Mason, aged % years
died suddenly Of paralysis Of the
brain, in Natchcz Oh Thursday Of
last week.
Chas. G.. Lewis, member of a
suspended business firm in New York,
shot himself dead last week at the
Windsor House.
The Legislature adjourned last
Saturday sue dee. The Senate post
poned the resolution suspendinS
Clinton by vote Of Is to lG.
John T.. George prominent
Republican politician of Lebanon, Pa,
suicided last week. They are the
last men to DO such things here.
A dispa,ch to the London Stand
ard from st. Petersburg, reports that
Marquis Dccaux, husband of Adclinc
Patti, has been killed in duel.
Last Sunday afternoon two trains
on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail
road were wrecked by a collision and
eight or ten persons severely injured.
The notorious Sam Bard has been
notified in plain terms that his resiyna.
ton as postmaster of Atlanta will b,
accepted; so he will have to stcE
down aud out.
a well executed counterfeit 50 bill
Of the First National Bank, Paxton
Illinois, haze appeared. The counter
felt Is printed from an altered plate
from which base tivcs on The Traders
National Bank, Chicago, were printed
There was a disastrous wind storm
at Norfolk last Saturday. Tw'
oyster sloops were known TO hav
been capsized, and the men We're see
clinging to the bottoms of the boats
but assistance could not reach then
a blood thirsty man shot girl fu
refusing 10 marry him, in Alleg hen
county, New York, the other day
then shot her mother, after which h
bowed his own worthless brains on
He was also the murderer Of b
grandmother.
The Louisiana Lcvcc Compan,
ct AL. have brought suit against Tho
A. Scott and ii :. McCUmb f,
$3.50, 900 for alleged violation of col
tract. 1t is charged that Scott ali
McComb agreed 10 furnish all ii
capital necessary 10 enable Il
Company at all times to perform i
contract with the State, but failed
do so, consequently this suit.
The rush Of immigration to y
braska, Wyoming, Utah and the i
cifiic coast this spring via. Omaha,
reported IA unusually large. Near
10000 emigran's have passed throug
since March lst, aud | 600 more a
there now awaiting transportation.
Thirteen railroads in Illinois are
the hands Of receivers, cmbraclr
49, 2.2S7 miles Of road the total indrh
edness Of which is about SEA 435, 81
or nearly $4,000 mile. This, sa,
an exchange, is the result of one We;
Ut grange legislation and it may |
aided that these same roads owe