West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-08

From tho Capital.

forbid further retirement OF United States
legal tender notes:
he II enacted etc. that from and after the pass
age oil This act II shall not bc lawful for the Secrc
thE OF the treasury or other officers under him 10
cancer OF retire any of the United States legal
Nnd% notes; ana when any Of said notes NAV be
redeemed or bo received into the Treasury under
~! Jaw ron any source whatever, aud shall belong
70 the United States they shall not be retired cam
c,hd OF destroyed, but they shall be reissued and
PAM OUT again and kept I'm circulation: provided
mat nothing herein shall prohibit cancellation and
destruction OF mutlated notes aud the issue Of
other uotes Of like denomination in their stead as
now provided All acts or parts of acts i'm GONZALEZ
herewith are hereby repealed -
Inc marriage of Lieutenant Il. L. Hoxie
TO MISS Winnie Ream took place, May rs, at
the Ascension Church. The bride was
gwen away by General Sherman. The
House Naval Affairs ommittee has agreed
to report favorably Mr.. Harris's bill AN.
pointing Board of Admiralty To dispose of
Oh SHIPS and construct new navy
Postmaster General Key has W itten an
open letter to the people OF the South on
,he reopeniDg of the Presidential question
py congress. lie takes strong ground
against the proceeding, pronounces il lille.
gal, says 1t is for the purpose of oustinp
hayes, and says that the people must disre.
caro- party affiliations and rebuke the pro.
ceedlng by sending members to Congress
opposed TO il.
Itoms In GeneraI
The Indiana Greenback National Labor
Party which met at indianapolis on Nav %
passed resolutions in opposition TO every
measure looking to the resumption of snecie
payments, and in favor of "the abolition of
all bank issues, the free and unlimi, cd
coinage OF gold and silver and the
issuing by the government of full legal
tender paper fat money, receivable for All
dues and payable for all debts, public and
private in amounts sufficient TO meet the
wants OF trade, to give employment To all
labor, and to enable the people TO do a cash
business, and to relieve them from the debt
system which has made the industrial and
commercial classes the slaves and drudge,
oil the credit mougers OF the world g
Inc resolutions also "denounce the red oay
communism imported from Europe. which
a ,r lor an equal division of property, and
we uenounce the communism of the ma.
lonal banks, of the bond syndicates. and Of
the consolidated railroad corporations
"nlch nave secured and are enforcing an
unequal division of property" The fol.
lowing State officers were nominated: Sec.
IIetary OF State, Henley James, of Grant :.
treasurer of State r. +. Main of FLOYD
Auditor OF State, Jacob +. Bird, of Gibson
Attorney General, David Moss, of Hamil.
ton superintendent of Public Instruc.
non, John Young, of Marion
by the upsetting of the steamer Empress
near Gault, Ontario, on the ODD, eighteen
ilves were lost.....Three children of A
iarmer named John Wormkey, near
dubuque, Iowa, were sufiocated by the
burning of sticks thrown into n wood-box.
Wormkey and his wife had locked the
children in the ROOM and gone TO work in n
cornheld. ..... George Stambaugb, a farmer
near Gallipolis, Ohio, was killed while ont
Piowlng, by dead log falling upon him
Inc New York Bulletin is informed by the
Cfa a.,
bermuda, that the English ironclad Serious
S"llt cruiser left that port with sealed
orders, 1t is supposed for the coast of Maine
10 look alter the movements of Russian yes
sells IN that quarter. The British fleet at
bermuda, consisting of several quick.sail.
nE guhooats, nave also received orders to
sail at once for Halifax.
'onnle Bieler and Jimmie Locke, aged
respectively five and seven years wero
instantly killed at Garrett Civ Ind NV tb,.
explosion of torpedo used by the RAILWAYS
as a danger, signal. The top of young
blelers head was blown off and Locks
skull and face were horribly mangIed .....
BISHOP McCoskry has returned home and
declares that he hereby resumes his place
as blsnop oil Michigan. He is very reticent
as TO the recent stories set afloat affect
ing his ministerial standing
Inc pennsylvania Democrats have nomina.
Ieu H. Dlll, IorGovernor, l.. p. Ross, Supreme
Judge; j. Fertig, Lieutenant Governor. I
y Africa, Secretary of Internal fairs. The
ne platform of resolutions charges all the
S IlsTess e. labor and trade upon the Repub-
lican PoIey; declares against contraction
arraigns the Republican State Government
TOT failure To prevent discrimination i'm
railroad ireights, and failure to pass n free
PIKE OIL; and urges that the investi.
CATION be made in Electoral frauds. bnt
aiePrecaies "a any attack upon the Presidential
ue:........Ihe Vermont Republican Con.
Ventlon nominated Colonel Redfeld proc.
tor, of Rutland, for Governor. The resoIn.
tons indorse President Hayes, and re.
prove the House of Representative
Tor reopening the Presidential question.
"A later dispatch from Toronto says that
the little steamer Empress of India was car.
Iled over Blaine's Dam, Grand River having
seventeen passengers on board, of whom
nine were rescued. The names of the lost
are; ii. j. Jaffray, proprietor of the Cali
exporter; James Montgomery, Edward
wren, Andrew Jackson John Frazer. Fred.
enck Crane, Robert Elliott and David scott
dispatch from Madison, Wisconsin
says: None of the accounts of the late storm
have been exaggerated, nor half been
told OF its destructiveness. The eastern
towns did not suffer near as mucb as the
western towns of Primrose, Montrose and
Perry, but everywhere in its course a scene
VI utsoiatlon is apparent. Thirty lives were
sacrhced 70 its iRsatiate fury in this county
alone and nearly a hundred were seriously
injured, while the destruction of nroDertyy
VIII reach into millions. From the first
strose OF the cyclone at Mineral Point
through IT'S whole course across the State
the destruction was great, and il is est.
mated That fifty lives have been lost and
from Two hundred 70 two hundred and fftv
seriously injured, while scores of people are
leit homeless, many Of them unable to know
Where their next meal is coming from
ne ne Whole loss OF property will be several
SURVIVORS are narrowing in the extreme. and
the woe and desolation evervwbere visi,
bieis extremely painful.
A most terrible murder is reported from
Iaylorville, III. An invalid named Mrs
Hamilton, in the envirOns Of the town. was
killed by an Ak in the hands Of william
l(ay, q boy about fifteen years Of age du,ing
the absence Of the family The bow stated
az brst That some tramps had murdered The
woman with Ratchet, and that he saw tber,
running away from the house. He Gave q
description OF the men, and immediateIy a
large party we're out in every direction
securing the country for tramps. Severo{
men were arrested and brought in and 49,
boy pretended 10 identify one Of the r,en
but the people bad already began IN snsncc;
the BOY, and after thorough eEaninotior -
the held by which the house was r,,,
rounded, % was found that there were a..
Tracks OF any person, and as the orourd
vas wet the people we're satisfied fbat nC
tramp bad done the deed The bow mn,
being thoroughly examined by Sheriff Nav