The Virginia star., 1877-09-08
NO. %.
THE LATEST.

month for short trip in Europe.
The buffalo is reported dying on the
frontier of Texas from the effects of the
drought.
So far 3,212 car loads or 1925, $50
baskets of peaches have been shipped
over the Delaware railroad.
The Third Regiment Infantry, now
stationed at Scranton, Pa, has been
ordered to Montana Territory.
| The resignation of Theophilus
Gaines, recently appointed U. s. At
tOrney for Montana, has been accepted
| by the President.
Alvin Adams, founder of Adams
Express Company, died at his residence
ut Watertown, Massachusetts on Satur-
day last, aged 49,
Brigham Young, who started with
one wife and no fortune, managed to
save up five or six millions of dollars
and about nineteen wives.
Justice Field of the United States
| Supreme Court, now at San Francisco.
denies that he has said anything dero-
gatory to Justice Bradley, as was re-
ported.
President Hayes has determined to
| remove Collector Arthur and Surveyor
Sharpe, of the New York Custom House,
| if they decline to send in their resigna-
tions when they are demanded.
The government of the Mormon
Church has passed into the hands of
twelve apostles, ten of whom are in Salt
Lake City. The other two, Joseph +.
Smith aud Orson Pratt, are in England
-Ex-Secretary Bristow has an
nOunced his intention of reading pa
per on the reconciliation of silver be-
fore the Bankers Convention which
Will meet in New York on the 18th inst,
Our distinguished American now
travelling abroad has been '.tilled with
emotion on account of his new title.
1t is now Ulysses Simpson Grant, LII.
d., ID. c. L., Burgess of Edinburg, Scot
land.
The grand jury at San Francisco
has indicted George M. Pinny on two
charges of obtaining money under false
pretenses and has ignored twelve pre-
sentiments for the same offense and nine
for forgery.
The General Ticket and Passenger
Agents Association, comprising the
heads of these departments of all the
IL
Canada, hold their next semi-annual
convention at Boston, September IA.
Jos. B. English was arrested on the
lst inst. by the New York police for
having in his possession a $1,000 bond,
which he was trying to sell for $3.50.
The bond had been advertised by the
Treasury Department as having been
lost or stolen.
There were thirty-nine failures in
New York City during the past month,
greater number than in any previous
month this year. The total liabilities
amount in round numbers to 81, 500, 900,
including the assignments and adjudi-
cations in bankruptcy.
The Superintendent of the Govern
ment Printing Office has issued circu-
lar to Senators and representatives i'm
Congress requesting them to abstain
from seeking to influence appointments
in the office, as he intends hereafter to
run it according to his own judgment.
1t is reported that Special Treasury
Agent Bracket is in daily communica-
tion.with Scott, the go-between in the
silk smuggling operations, who is still
i'll Canada, and that surprising develop
ments may be expected before the
eases come to trial, about
the 10Th of September.
There is no change i'm the situation
among the striking Cincinnati cigar
makers except combination among
the manufacturers, who threaten to
close their works unless the men al
ready out return to work. This action
is taken to prevent the strikers receiv-
ing aid from those at work
One of the famous Davenport broth
ors, illusiOnists, died at Sydney, Aus
5ralia, recently. He was native of
Buffalo, and was well known through
'ut the country as Spiritual Me-
lium," whose business it was, with his
brother, to give what Spiritualists term
'psychical demonstrations
Theodore Thomas will henceforth
tay in New York, winters, and spend
he months from May to September be-
ween Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
-ouis; and we suppose he will also
kurry around the country as he has
one heretofore, visiting Springfield,
Boston, and other small places OCCASION
lily.
Colonel Holiday, in his letter ac-
epting the Conservative nomination
or Governor of Virginia, says that
Ihatever plan may be adopted for the
isposition of the public debt, it should
e such "as will secure the approval of
ne right thinking everywhere, and ac-
ord with the dignity and honor of the
tate"