, 1878-09-21
General News.


management of postal affairs in the yell
low fever districts. At Granada the
situation is particularly distressing. The
postmaster died few days ago, and q
telegra phic appeal was received request~
ing that his wife be appointed as his
successor, as the salary was needed.
This morning dispatch was received
stating that she was dead. All the
bondsmen are dead or have left the city
and all the money, stamps and records
of the Office are locked up in safe, and
the only persons who know the combi-
nation are dead. A clergyman is now
acting as volunteer postmaster for two
hours daily. This is in violation of law
on the part of the department, but
there is no remedy.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 16.-Mortality to- day
has been greater than was anticipated.
Ill deaths being reported, 36 of which
were COlOK6us 1ColOAOay t0CAS "SAS w
deaths instead of 80 as reported.
GRENADA, Sept. TO- Two deaths and
two new cases. Fever is abating and we
NAV soon look Tor a more cheerful con-
dition of affairs.
V1cKsBURG, Sept. 16.--Clear and
werm; thermometer, 9S': Physicians
think that there is steady decline In
new cases. Eighteen deaths to-day
nine whites and nine colored.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 16.--Of the "a origi>
nal Howards only six are on their feet,
the rest being dead or sick. The clerical
force is so much reduced that Secretary
j. H Smith requests persons sending
contributions TO sent by draft. There
is apparent falling off in the number Of
new cases. Only 50 new applications
fer rurses were made to the Howards
to-day. Twenty-six physicians OF the
medical corps report ia new cases for
the "a hours preceding Friday at r.
NJ, against 234 yesterday.
The following is the total death list
up to the end of last week: New Orleans
2,O91, Baton Rouge 80. Plaquemine 81,
Morgan City, La. s, Port Eads La, 8,
Memphis 1885, Grenada 223, Holly
Springs 76, Vicksburg 566. Canton. 81.
Port Gibson 90, Ocean Springs. Miss.
8, Gree nyille Miss Al, Lake Miss2
Hickman Ky 26. Louisville Z, lipolis,
Ohio 8, Cincinnati 6, St. Lonis 10,
Chicago l, Cairo, 3. Total $500.
NV YORK, Sept, 16.--The Times
Boston special says: A cs-efully kept
tally OF instructed delegates to the
Democratic state convention shows thus
far 454 for Butler s1d 39S opposed.
few more caucuses are to be held to-
morrow. One of the pledged delegates
to the Republican conveni on 239 ore
for Talbot and 81 for Long. A large
number are uninstrhcted and few have
been instructed to vote for cong ressman
Pierce as candidate to draw Democrats
jc votes to beat Butler.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 16.--The following
account of the most horrible murder is
given in dispatches from Houston.
Texas: The wife of Geo. Lynch. a re-
spected citizen of Berkely. Texas, oied
some weeks ago. leaving an infant.
Lynch had seven other children, the
Oldest, Clemie being seventeen years
of age. On Friday night the family re-
tired as usual, the lamp being left
burning in the main room. At midnight
the father was awakened by a pistol
shot and the ball striking him in the
breast. He sprang up and saw mask
ed man standing in the middle ROOM
pointing pistol at him. The assassin
fired gain, the ball lodging beneath his
ollar bone. Lynch fell unconscious
When he recovered consciousness be
found himself lying in lane outside
the premises. The assassin thinking
Lynch was dead, seized a hatchet and
killed the children, who were witnesses.
He assaulted Clemie and buried the
hatchet in her head, and also crashed
the head of three other children and
then set fire to the house. The distrac-
ted father saw the burning house fall in
on the bodies of his eight children.
The bodies were afterwards exhumed
and an inquest held, wheni the hatchet
wounds were discovered upon the
skulls of the children. It is thought
that Lyuch will recover. A young man
named Boatware, with whom Lynch
had had difficulty is suspected of the
crime.
Boston, Sept. 17.-McDsvits's decla-
ration that the Butterflies proposed to
retain the hall was answered by pas
sionate peal of applause. When the
state central committee fully realized
that fha Ryaf1ar faction had coutro1 of