The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

The North Carolina coast has been the scene
of another frightful ocean calamity. On the
evening of the 31st ult. the steamship Metrop-
oils, from Philadelphia to Para, Brazil, went
ashore on Currituck beach, three miles south
of the lighthouse, during the prevalence of a
furious southeast gale. Great confusion pre-
vailed on board, and owing to the fury of the
gale and the roaring of the surf the orders of
the officers could not be heard. Many of
the passengers and crew were washed ashore.
About 100 are believed to be lost. 1t appears
that the vessel had encountered heavy gales
from the southeast for twenty-four hours, and
when she struck she was heading about
south-southeast. The Metropolis had on
board 200 railroad lab0rers bound for Brazil,
nearly half of whom found watery grave.
WILLIAM VIEWERS was hanged at st. Louis
on Friday, the list inst, for the murder, in
January last, of A. V. Lawrence, a barkeeper
in low theater. A tremendous effort was
made to save the condemned man from the
gallows, but the Governor of Missouri was
inexorable. On the same day Joseph Woods
was hanged at Moline, n. Y, and Philip Wat
son (colored) was similarly disposed Of at Gin
cinnati. The crimes for which this trio of
culprits suffered death were all of peculiarly
atrocious nature.
Business embarrassments Althof, Bergman
& Co., toy importers, New York, liabilities
$150,000; the Topeka Bank and Savings Inst-
tute, Topeka, Kan, deposits $14O, 900, nominal
re 5000 hofc nd h.
ing, Toledo, Ohio; Cooley, Palmer &
Co., dry-goods jobbers, Dubuque Iowa;
Merchants National Bank, Fort Scott, Kan;
First National Bank, Kansas City, Mo-; the
Commercial National Bank, Kansas City, Mo-;
James Watson, coal dealer, Pittsburgh, Pa, Ii
abilities 300, 900; George Park, manufacturer
of edged tools, Buffalo, N. Y, liabilities $780,
600, assets $11 900; Peoria Furniture Company,
Peoria, ILL.,; liabilities $4,000; Young. Smith
& Co.. sugar importers, New York, liabilities
$260,000; Howard, Smelling Co., coal
dealers, Boston, liabilities $130,00O; the
Easement Savings Bank. Union City, Pa, La
bilities $40, 900 James FL. Batchelder, lumber
dealer Middlebury, VT, liabilities $4,000 as
sets 1876, 600; Henry McCulloch, stock dealer,
Wells county, Ind, liabilities 100000; Don
ovan, Williams & Shannon, boots and shoes
Montreal, liabilities 100000 G. F. Seebold,
china and glassware, st. Louis the Provi-
idence County Savings Bank, Pawtucket, r. I.
The members of the Louisiana Returning
Board appealed to Judge Bradley, of the United
States Supreme Court, to issue writ of certior'-
o9i ordering transfer of the cases from the State
to the United States Court. Judge Bradley, in
q decision of some length, refused the applica-
ton. The decision sets forth that the Return
ing Board makes application en- the ground of
prejudice and inability to secure their rights
and the fact that the Jury law of 1877 is
hostile to colored citizens. Justice Bradley
says the application raises three ques-
tions: First was the presentation of the petit
ton sufficient to amend the Jurisdiction of the
State court, or had that court the right to ex-
anime into that suficiency? Second, If the
State court had the right to examine, had the
Circuit Court the right to re-examine and issue
certiorari or other writs? Third, If the Cir
cult Court had such rights, did the petition
show sufficient ground to the first two ques
tons? Justice Bradley answers that, in the
jury law of 1877, there is nothing open to con-
stitutonal objections, and also the prejudice is
not such a cause as warrants a transfer.
Neither the Fourteenth amendment nor the
Gvil-Rights bill was violated. There is no
State legislation hostile to either. &