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| temperate, and was ordered to leave.
He did leave for a few days, but
returned on the night of the 24th, and,
after an alteration with the old lady, shot
her dead. Mr.. Rhodes, hearing the shot,
fastened to the house, and was fired at, but
the pistol missed fire. Britain then fired
twice into his own body, dying instantly.
| Brittain's young wife, now approaching
confinement, is reported nearly insane over
the affair. Britain left letter blaming
Mrs. Rhodes, his mother-in-law, for max
ing trouble.
There are, as usual, conflicting accounts
of the origin of disturbance at Port Glib
| son, Miss, on the 21st, in which several
shots were exchanged between the whites
and blacks. One negro was wounded and
several arrested and lodged in Jail.
| The Indiana Secretary Of State authorizes
the following as the result of the recent
| election: The highest vote cast was for
Treasurer of State, viz: Democratic, 212,-
O19; Republican, 206, 21S; Independent,
16 ,0s2; total, 434, ,319. The average plu-
rality for the Democratic State ticket is 81
| S46; that for Williams over Harrison fer
| Governor being 5,139.
/ Wood Neff, son-in-law of John Speer, of
| G'lC AoViCASC \AAdA'J LftO~Hos Was lSCSHC"
ly killed by the wrecking Of train on the
Kansas Pacific Railroad near Longview. A
number of other passengers were hurt, but
none seriously.
Henry Scales, colored, was hung in the
Illinois District of the Cherokee Nation, by
the Cherokee authorities, on the 21st inst,
1or killing another colored man. This was
Scales 3 third murder.
| The official vote of Ohio at the late cleo
tion, rs published in%he Cincinnati papers,
shows the following result: The whole
number of votes east for Secretary of State
was 631 ,065, of which Barnes (Rep. received
BIT s56, Bell (Dem.) 311 410, and Chapman
| (Prohib. } 1,799. Barnes's plurality, 6, 446.
| The Republicans elect - Congressman with
aggregate pluralities of 0,04S; the Demo-
Gratis elect s Congressman with aggregate
pluralities of 23.s1S. Republican plurality
on Congress, $3.50.
The President of the Charleston Chamber
of Commerce, the Methodist, Catholic and
| Episcopal Bishops, the leading Presbyteri-
an, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish minis
ters, and the Presidents of the National and
other banks in Charleston have
united in an address on the condition
| of South Carolina, to the people of the
| United States, which denies that the white
people of South Carolina are disloyal and
disaffected to the United States Government;
that any part of the State is in insurrection;
| that the law can not be duly enforced with
| in the limits of the State; that any lawful
cause exists for Federal interference; that
the white people of the State are disatfected
towards the colored people or desire to in
fringe on their political or civil rights; that
the rifle clubs in the State are combinations
against the law, or that in the recent race
collisions the white people have been the ag-
gressors.
Hon. Charles E. De Long, ex-Ministsr to
Japan, died at Virginia City, New, on the
Goth, of typhoid fever.
| The Jury in the case of Alexander Sulli-
van, on trial in Chicago for the murder Of
Francis Hanford, were unable to agree and
were therefore discharged on the 26th. It
is said that the Jury stood eleven for ac-
| quittal and one for conviction.
| FOREIGr.
| Bombay is threatened with a famine on
account of the failure in certain districts of
the monsoon crops and the subsequent ex-
treme drouth. The collector of Poonah re-
| pOTIS tudI HOL d SluSlc Dlaut VI grass Is flsl-
BILE for miles. The tanks and rivers are
drying up, and cattle are dying from starva-
| ton. The collector at Sholapore gives still
worse reports. The Government has open
ed relief works and is employing people in
excavatipg tanks and making roads.
A London telegram Of the 23d says: The
steady advance in consols and other interna-
tional stocks, which fell during last weeks
panic, indicates a prevailing impression
| here that war is not imminent, and that
peaceable solution Of the Eastern question
| is not impossible. The Times says:
There is, perhaps, danger that unreason-
| able alarms may be succeeded by unreason-
| able hopes, but it is evident that we need
not despair Of seeing the crisis pass away
without an outbreak of hostiities between
Russia and Turkey. The recent excitement
| has had the effect of demonstrating what
would be the attitude of powers in case of
aggressive war by Russia
| Leonard Amblam, Belgian, who was ar
rested in July last on board an outward
bound steamer from Liverpool, accused of
the robbery and murder OF G. Lursuta, a
banker, and his housekeeper, at Civry near
Brussels, was delivered on the 10th inst. to
Belgian officer at Dover. On arriving at
Ostend the officer and his prisoner, the
latter manacled, took a special compart-
ment on the Brussels train. On the arrival
of the train at Brussels both were missing.
The compartment they occupied was del
uged with blood and bore marks of ter
rife struggle. The body Of the officer was
| found beside the track with the head and
face battered. All the valuables were
| taken. 1t is conjectured that Amblam
watched an opportunity to strike the official
with his wrist-irons and beat him to death,
after which he unlocked the manacles and
escaped.
Intelligence has beeh received of fight
between the Liberals and Ultramontanes at
Stabio, Canton of Tessin, in Switzerland,
in consequence of dissension over the ap-
pointment of representatives in the Grand
! Council Of Cantons Two Iiherals wara