The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-24

The suffering occasioned by the fire in yir-
ginis City was great, and as there were many
residents afflicted with typhoid fever, q number
Of deaths have occurred from exposure. ,he
extortionste demands Of drivers of vehicles
retarded many In the removal of sick, and in
one case resulted in = murder, where q father,
frenzied to find he was unable to pay the price
OF removal, shot the driver dead. The losses
by the fire are now estimated at something
over o, 900 900, on wh:oh the insurance is $1,-
zoo, 900. The director OF the United States
mint has received dispatch from the mines
saying it will be months before any bullion can
be supplied, on account Of the destruction OF
the works. :. John Dolan was found guilty of
murder in the first degree on the charge
against him for killing Mr.. Noe, in his brush
shop In New York. .... Venezuela is quiet.
Business Is improving, and general confidence
prevails all over the country. The crops Of
coffee and COCOA will be abundant. The
official returns Of the Ohio election give
Hayes 5,549 majority -. ID. r. Fogg, of st.
Louis, shot Pauline Plachman, aged sixteen
years, to whom he was engaged to be married,
but did not mortally wound her. He then
fatally stabbed himself. -Four men were
killed by an explosion of gas in the Raccoon
Pit coal mine, Chesterfield county, Va
The October report of the Department OF
Agriculture shows that the cranberry crop
is short, rice is abundant, sugar fully up to
the average, hops quite good, hemp very fine,
and the number Of fattening cattle larger than
that OF any previous year ...... The losses by
the Virginia City fire grow day by day, rs the
full damage is made known it is now set
down by competent figures at 81, 900, 600. Food
and clothing for the destitute is pouring in
from all parts Of the country -. The Farmer.
OF London says the cases Of cattle disease
for the quarter ending October 16, were
as follows: In Somersetshire, $4,000; In
Cheshire, $4,000; in Dorsetshire, $4,000; in
Glouoestershire, $4,000; In Oxfordshire, 3d.
600, In Warwickshire, $4,000; in Norfolk,
$1,000; in Cumberland, IS, OO0 Throughout
England and Wales there were for the same
time over 60O,O cases. The money damage is
estimated at q million dollars :. :. The Nassau
club OF New York beat the Anacostans OF
Washington, in three-mile straightaway race
on the Potomac, in twenty minutes and fifty
seconds. -. The proprietor Of t he Cardiff
giant has sued the Boston Herald for csc, 900
for questioning the genuineness Of the petrifi-
CATION. "A sailor, claiming to be the scle
survivor OF the bark Jewess, of Boston, which
sailed year and q half ago for New South
Wales, has just turned up, and tells horrible
story, to the effect that the Jewess, with an
unknown English bark, were beaalmed or the
Auckland islands for several daye, and that
one night both were boarded by sayaeee, the
crew overpowered, the vessels scuttled, and
the prisoners taken ashore and eaten. A
FAST mail to New Orleans via Charlotte and At
lanta, and second one from Washington to
Chicago, are projected..... NJ. Gambetts has
issued manifesto favoring amnesty, depart
mental voting, and State control of education.