West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-04-27

lrrom tho Capital.

ptoNulnS LOT the improvement OF the
Mississippi levees from st. Louis to the
mouth of the river. The bill provides for
the appointment of three army officers by
the Secretary of War and three civilians by
the President, whose annual salary shall not
exceed 50, 500 each. The bill Appropriates
S250,000 TO defray the expenses OF the com.
mission, including the salary, and of the
survey proposed.
The Director of the Mint has officially
withdrawn his objection TO the goloid coin
&c, which it is claimed, is gold coinage
monetizing silver. DIR. Hubbell, of Phila-
delphla, inventor of goloid, says: "The
President is in favor of its unlimited coin.
age, and expressed his opinion to him that
It only needs talking mp to induce its adop-
ton"
Reports of the national banks 10 the Com
troller of the Currency to March 18th ult.
have just been compiled, and show the
banks held that day $54, 54S, 200 of specie
which rs larger amount than ever before
reported by the national banks since the or.
ganizatlon of the system. OF this amount
$4,3lS,9OO was i'm silver coin, 81, 3O7, 600 i'm
gold coin. and $4,S92, 800 i'm gold Treasury
notes. Toe amount held by national banks
IN New York City on the same dny was
$S7,432,000, of which S35,0O3, 200 were gold
Treasury notes, 81 ,907 400 gold coin, and
SOL 400 silver coin. The amount of specie
on the same day was $i,724 l52. ....D Door
Keeper Field has appointed James G.
Knight, OF Wisconsin, First Assistant Door.
Keeper OF the House of Representatives.
"ce Donovan resigned. Knight wasa Union
soldier
Items In Gonorai.
The Kentucky Legislature adjourned on
the 10th. Among the acts done, was the
adoption of a joint resolution looking TO
the revision of the present Constitution of
the State. Professor John w. Hoyt. of
Wisconsin, who has been prominently con-
nected with agricultural progress, az d who
was a Commissioner tn the Vienna Expo.
sition, was recently nominated and has
neen confirmed, as Governor of Wyoming
IN place oil Governor Thayer, removed
=. Angler Chase, Treasurer of the Union
NILS, at Fall River, Massachusetts,, is said to
ne a detauIter in the sum of $480,OOO. The
banks and other corporations are all secure
MS lar as heard. The Union Mills have been
at'aehed by Henry l. Pearce, a private
banker OF Providence. base, the Treas
urer, IN letter TO the Directors, acknowl.
edges SlSO,OOO. Some of the Directors are
said to be on the mill paper.
WIN. Nj. Tweed died i'm Ludlow-street
Jail, New York, at precisely twelve O'Clock
M, on April -. lie was attended by DR.
Carnochan, who was with him from an early
hour in the morning; also Foster Dewey.
his secretary, Mr.. Douglass, his son.in.law.
Edelstein, of his counsel. All homes Of his
recovery were abandoned soon after eleven
when Or. Carnochan announced a cloCping
OF the heart and complete nervous exhaus
uon' Keeper kernin was hUrriedly sum-
moned three minutes before noon and
reaching Mr.. Tweed's room the noon signal
rang out, and the long prisoned old man
dropped back dead in his bed. His last
words TO DIR. Carnochan were: al have
tried TO do some good. If | have not had
good luck / am not afraid to die. | believe
lhe guardian angels will protect me /"
Bayord Taylor and Murat Halstead sailed
Tor Europe in the steamer Halsatia on the
izth.;. Fred. Wells, a butcher and Jacob
hnodei, saloon-keeper, both Germans,
committed suicide GU the same dav i'm
Cincinnati. Wells cut his throat from ear
TO ear, and Knodel put a bullet through his
brain.
AT Cincinnati, recently, young married
man, Augustus Aull, shot himself through
inc heart In mt of insanity At Nor.
wood, Cincinnati suburb, Horatio n
Burgoyne, died by hanging himself. The
deceased was man eighty years of age
Ills nome was at Laurel, Ind, and he was
wen known in every part of his State Dur.
ing most OF his life he had been actively
engaged in pOlit cal affairs, and his addresses
more than one occasion, to the success of
the Democratic party, of which he was al
ways sanch partisan.......A special from
New Iberia, La, reports the burning of the
sugar house and ginnery of Devezir Oliver,
near that place, and the CAPTURE and execu
ton by hanging of the incendiary. n coIored
man, who acknowledged he had fired Ora.
weinberg d Fay's sugar houses some months
ago.
Congressman Vance turned up in
San Francisco, reported insane.........
Mention is made of the suicide of Augustus
Aull IN Cincinnati. Another chapter, even
more painful than the first, has now to be
added. Aull had been lately married. and
was living with his wife, at No. 255 Clinton
street. Both were well connected, and to
all appearances had a bright future before
them. Early Monday morning Aull, while
stlll IN bed, with his young wife lying beside
hlm, paced the muzzle of a loaded pistol
over MS heart and pulled the trigger In
malt an hour he was dead. The terrible
suddenness and awfulness of the occur.
renee threw the wife into a paroxysm of
fright and grief, from which it was impossi.
Die Tor her to recover. She was too much
Prostrated 70 give any testimony before the
coroner, and that evening died A sadder
late IS not often chronicled than that which
IN one day overlook this young couple.
a special train of eight cars, filled with
french families from New England manu-.
Iacturing villages, passed through Nashua.
New Hampshire, bound for Manitoba where
each family will receive one hundred and
sixty acres of land from the Canadian Gov.
eminent.
western Items
II Is publicly announced at Denver.
Colordo, that II. A. McIntre, President Of
the First National Bank Of Lake CITY aod
Vice President Of the First National Ba,k
OF Colorado Springs, Col, has absconded
with $4,000. The first disclosures were
MADE quite recently, and showed that Nc.
ihtlre had in the interim following the
neath OF the President Of the bank al Colo
radO Springs, and before the vacancy was
supplied, secured from the deposits OF this
bank between $4,000 and 10000 In add.
ton TO this, he has hypothetic stock Of ~
Two banks with which he was CONNECTED
amounting 70 $4,000. IL il feared tbat a. .
losses Of the Lake City Bank will he
irreparable, md that further disclosures
VIII swell the estimate already made
A tornado struck Cottonwood Static, n,
the A., T. q ST. r. r., at about four O'Clock
in the afternoon Of Saturday, the 18Th. Tn,
Cottonwood Hotel and several other build
ings were blown down. Mrs. Miller wa,
KILLED, and her husband and four children
oangerously hurt. Fred. Smith, wife. anc
thfee Children, John Merritt Lizzie Merritt
qua mrs Mathew we're badly hurt Al
Jac20' Creek, Mrs. Boge had herIeg broken
~ FhenIs Creek, Edward Davis's voung,sl
chHd was dangerously hurt Mrs. OaboTne
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