, 1875-10-02
NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail.

5OlIC lHtO NO4uItdl lHl uludllOll'
\ case Of yellow fever was dis
covered in Brooklyn last week,
The victim is a sailor recently
from Cuba.
Itis announced that the Young
Mems Christian Association, Of
New York, have leased Gilmore's
Garden for the winter and that
Moody and Sankey will begin a
series Of revival meetings on Nov.
lst, which are to continue all win
ter.
The TIerndon House, at Mar
shall, Mich, was burned on the
morning Of Sept. 9th. Four lives
were lost. The names Of the lost
are c. G. Avery, jeweler; Antoine
CARRIER, carpenter: Eliza King,
dining-room girl, and Martha Yos-
den, cook.
A man and woman at Robin
sons circus, New York, city, fell
head foremost to the floor from
the ceiling, while attempting a
trapeze movement. Both are ia
tally injured.
Mrs. Hogan has recovered a
verdict of $1,000 damages against
the Cumberland and Pennsylva-
MIA railroad, for the loss of her
husband by a locomotive explosion
Suit was brought for $4,000.
The government refuses to ex-
tend aid to the sufferers on the
coast Of Texas, as the district in
undated does not lie IN the scope
of country included in the law au-
thOrizing ID by the war depart
ment.
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, has au-
thorized $1,000 to be sent to the
Texas sufferers. New York will
also respond literally.
Contributions have been for
warded from San Antonio, Austin
and other cities in Texas. A par
ty Of Mexicans on Sunday began
to rob the dead bodies washed
ashore. The scoundrels were
chopping the fingers, hands and
ears off men and women to obtain
the jewelry. As soon as this was
heard of in the city, a party Of cit
liens went out and killed FIVE
Mexicans whom they caught at
the devilish work.
Coal has advanced in price in
the Eastern States.
President Grant and wife, ac-
companied by ex-Secretary Borie
and wife are in St. Louis. The
President is on a visit to his farm
to arrange for the sale of his stock.
The party will visit Denver, via
Omaha and Cheyenne.
Some of the friends of young
Fisher, who stole $4,000 from
the Treasury, visited Attorney
General Pierrepont and tried to
persuade him to show leniency in
the case. Pierrepont replied that
Fisher must be prosecuted to the
full extent Of the law. The young
mans social position entitled his
mother to the fullest sympathy,
but all considerations of the kind
would have to be foregone with
the view of making an example of
a public officer who would so wan
tonly prostitute his official posi-
ton. The case is now before the
grand jury.
Great rains have been very dam
aging to the English hop crop.
A crowded meeting was held in
Paris last week for the purpose Of
inducing participation in the PHI
ladelphia exhibition.
The mail service of Idaho Terri
tory has been increased&
Jacob Lander stepped in front
of q train at Bennington, VT, on
Sept. 23d, and was instantly
killed.. Poverty and poor health
are supposed to be the cause Of
the act. He leaves a wife and 4
children, and a daughter lay dead
in the house when he suicided.
The body of a man named John
Little has Just been brought into
Fort Larimie. He was killed by
Indians about 90 miles from the
military post. Some Of his stock
had been run of and be went in
pursuit oft. When his body was
found the ears were cut of, and
the nose and chin shot of. There
are supposed to have been only
three Indians in the party that
killed him.
A largely attended mass meet
ing was held last week in Cooper
Institute, New York. The pur-
pose of the call was stated to be
to demonstrate that greenbacks
must meet the necessity Of peace
as well as they met those Of the
war; that Ohio and Pennsylvania
must be sustained in their efforts