The daily gazette., 1878-10-08
General News.

VIM. Delaney and John Evans have
been put in Jail at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
charged with the assassination of Philip
Calender, on the 10Th Of last January
The arrests are based on the statement
of notorious character named Bernard
Tins.
General Sherman has returned to
Washington from his extended trip
West and to the Pacific coast He is in
excellent health, and speaks in bigh
terms of the various military posts which
he officially visited, referring to them as
models of neatness and efficiency.
Klebur White, colored, shot and in
stantly killed another colored man,
named Harry Coleman, in Henrico
county, Va, three miles below Rich
mond, yesterday. Alleged cause, seduc-
ton of Whites sister, fourteen years old,
and refusal of Coleman to marry her.
Judge Sutherland, of the New York
Court of General Sessions, in his charge
to the grand jury, dwells strongly on the
practice of certain public officers of de-
manding fees to which they are not emit
tied. He had reference to the sheriff,
County clerk and register, against whom
such charges have been made.
The movemant of grain at Chicago,
yesterday, amounted to 1 100000 bushels,
which was distributed as follows: Re-
ceipts 1876, 900 bushels of wheat, 284 900
corn, and $4,000 oats, rye and barley
total, $4,000 bushels; shipments, 232 >
900 bushels wheat, $4,000 corn, and
10000 oats, rye and barley-total, 63O-
600 bushels.
Gen. Lew Wallace, recently appointed
Governor of New Mexico, has notified
the President of continued disturbances
and La Iessness in Lincoln county in that
Territory, and requested the aid of the
the peace. The President will therefore
issue his proclamation commanding all
riotous bands to disperse within five
days.
Madame Keller, Lady of the Sacred
Heart and general directress of the acad-
emy of that order at Manhattansville,
N. Y, died in that city on Saturday. She
was well known and much beloved also
in Philadelphia, having been high ON
cial in the School of the Sacred Heart
on Walnut street for seven years, many
children passing under her care during
that time.
Gen. Sheridan, in dispatch from his
Headquarters at Chicago Saturday, states
that Col. Thornburg would probably
overtake the renegade Cheyenne Indians,
wh OSe trail was Jnen GOWaruS the heu
Cloud agency. Gen. Gibbon confirms
the statement that Spotted Tells Indians
had LETT the Rosebud, their new agency,
and burned the country in all directions
"This looks bad for peace" says Gen
Sheridan, "and my only hope Is that II
NAV not be as bad as it looks"
One hundred and fifteen new cases OF
yellow fever ard Al deaths were report
ed in New Orleans yesterday, making a
total of 10000 cases and 3212 deaths to
date. There were Ill new cases of the
fever and II deaths In Baton Rouge,
"with one physician to hear from" in
the 48 hours ending yesterday morning.
Forty-eight deaths We're reported in
Memphis and its suburbs yesterday. The
fever continues to spread everywhere on
the plantations and in the villages and
small towns.
There appears to be no abatement OF
the rayages of the yellow fever in the
South. It is announced that the citizens
relief committee of Memphis have all the
money, supplies, Sc, they need, but
there is q vast amount Of suffering and
want in other quarters. The fever is
spreading in the interior towns, and the
mortality everywhere in the infected dis
trict continues large. DR.. Il. Lloyd
Howard, of Baltimore, and DR.. Jerome
Cochran, of Mobile, of the yellow fever
investigating commission, have arrived
in New Orleans.