Daily Republican., 1878-11-19
FIRST EDITION.
NEWS SUNNI MARY.
Farmer KtIled-OfSice Seek 0rs-The
Yeliow Fever-MOilte Mag uires
Gensenced-.A Masked Murderer
Alabama Sen ntOv-Other Casual
ties, Grimes. Incidents and Acct.

uies, Grimes. Iacidents and Acct
dents.
A farmer named Dahili, living nea,
New Hope, KY, hearing a noise at hi,
corn.crib, early Saturday morning
thought It was robbers, and started uu,
Of the h0use with his gun. The ham
mer Of the weapon caught on u chair,
causing an explosion, and the load
penetrated the farmers side killing
him instantly.
A despatch from Washington states
that when the next Congress meets
there will b. five candidates for the
Secr.tarysh hip Of the Senate. Among
them are ex Representative Waddell, OF
North Carolina, prominent new spa.
per correspondent, and John q. Thomp
son, OF Ohio, the present Ssrgeant-at,
arms q tbe House.
For the forty-eight hours ending at
six O'Clock last night there wer. ten
deaths from yellow fever recorded with
tn. Board Of Health In New Orleans
with dates as follows: November IA,
one; Is, two; 10, one; II, five; Is, One.
No new cases were reported. The TO.
tai number to date Is 4,0l5.
Governor Hartrantt yesterday issued
death warrants in the following cases,
in addition to that Of Jack kehoe, the
executions to take place on the 18th OF
December: Charles Sharpe and james
Mcdonnell, Carbon county; Martin
Bergin Sahuyk'll county, and Alexan.
der sayres, Philadelphia.
Awiite man named Hote and ne
gro named Frazer had difficulty in
Bedford county. Tenn, on SATURDAY,
during which both we're wounded.
Tha, night masked men went to the
house of Frazer and riddled his body |
with bullets.
The sixth ballot in the Democratic
caucus, at Montgomery, Ala. last night,
for senator, stood: Geo. II. Houston,
So; l.. r. Walker, II, James l.. pugh,
2b; Saul Bradford, l3; and scattering,
i. IL takes a two-thirds vote to noIni.
nate. Adjourned until TO dav.
A Washington special to the New
York Ereaiag Past states that Demo
cratic leaders say they have assurances
that rtary preventative elected ir
the Sonth az an Independent Democrat
will go into the b mocratie caucuses
and act with them on all political ques-
titns.
Jacub Dewitt, prominent farmer a
and road supervisor, Of Franklin eoun- |
ty, Ohio, was shot and fatally injured !
on Sunday by a neighbor named In i
gals, during dispute about the pay. i
Alent Of road tax. IN
A fire at Fayette, Ohio, on Sunday, b
caused by an explosion in the drug /
store VI Uinbhsaver x Snow, destroyed $
that and six other stores. The loss is t
estimated at $50, ,0hO, on which there is d
partial insurance.
There were five or six Senators IN 7
Washington yesterday. Three Senatr h
Committees were to have held meetings h
account OF the ABSENCE Of members. 81
A negro named Samuel johnson and
a white man named Frank Brown, the I
latter the son of a prominent physi h
clan at Elgin, H., were arrested at that
place on Saturday night for robbing
graves. 1,
In Columbia county, Ga, yesterday h,
morning an aged negro, named McLecs,
shot and killed his son Henry, because
the latter brok. into and stole goods I,
iIom his house some months ago. Ii
At church festival near Bloomfield, tt
Ind, on Sunday night, roughs attempt al
ed to take possession Of it, and We're n,
driven out after a number Of them had
been painfully wounded. n.
Charles Giidersleeve, of Long Swamp, hl
suffolk county, N. Y, has been attack T
I'd with hydrophobia, caused by bite "a
f"c"Ived from a dog twelve years since. 80
Perry Green, colored barber OF -,
Na'"rtown, N. Y, while drunk on ", w.
sunday afternoon, had his nose ana W. W.
mouth so plugged up with mud by ~
oHghs that he died of suiiocation. w
Louis Maneare, a boarder at the Ho an N
ct Espanoe, New York, retired to bed do
III Saturday night, after having blown ne
ut the gas, and was found dead the ".
'rHt morning from suilocation. til,
A. II. Webster, u prominent lumber pr,
"aler i'll East Saginaw, Mich, mas d.
aided. Liabilities $1,000; assets ub- b.,
inown. ga;
John corning, assistant superintend hi,
ut Of ti4t Central Pacific railroad. died p,,
L San Gabriel, Cal, Saturday night ,cr
Latest election returns from Wash tb,
NHton Territory give Brentz, rep, for Ell
'4rgate 10 CongIess 800 majority. flee
A young married girl, named Kehoe, hin
a' bern arrested at London, Ohio, for tai
her illegitmate child.
Rig Q"iIf and u Sis woman. we,
Mrs. susan Wright, residing at l0l :.'
FSt Fourteenth stree has just colnplet lug lug
| d large quilt which for the number WV ~
pieces in 1t knocks spots out of any wv
lIhg Of the kind we have yet heard OF. w
he quit is peced of very bright and A n
'r'rgated colored calcoes and closely Jur;;
al art~tically quilted. There are in g. N
' q"ll', ~ squars, each square con ''Vs q,
nIng pieces and 81 corner pieces :. y .
aKlng in all 354 pieces in row. ny
re are y such rows Of pieces in the s'' s
I,' making in all 10, ,266 pieces. 266 "
pre- than were in the West Pres ~ "
"ran Church quilt which is to be- 1,e" ~
| to Miss Bessie Houston, a mission nrS na
in China Mrs. Wright is very Vi y :,
=" woman, 81 years of age, weighing -. ~ ~
pounds and is but four feet five stea
hes in hight. Kh'' \,
one has not lain in bed for ten drar
ars, but sits and sleeps in an easy !,
''Illng chair, in which position ali" bav
lle the uuilI Ma l.Snri h,d Mnc 80