, 1878-08-31
General News.

NEW AOhAs AuS Ao.-AS 40 csoseN s~Ae'
new contract has been drawn uE
which will be sigped by officers of the
Pacific roads in few days. 1t calls fol
. uniform San francisco passenger
rate, rail or steamer at $137, in consid-
Grafton of which the Pacific Mail is to
receive ten dollars head money for
every through passenger carried by the
Union Pacific to and from San Francis
co. This is an increase of five dollars
head money over the Clyde contract of
1876, and it is estimated will yield 20
the Pacific Mail treasurer monthly the
sum of $22. 900. 1t is also understood
that both companies are to act inde-
pendently in the matter of freights res
gardless of each other or Of existing cir-
culars. President Babcock of the Pacific
Mail peremptorily declining to enter
into any scheme that would require an
advance in the freight rates now being
charged by the Pacific Mail.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26.-One thous-
and men in the iron mills of James
Rowland & Co., Stephen Robbins &
Son. Marshal Bros & Co., Philadelphia
Iron and Steel Co.. John Hughes &
Patterson, Fairhill Iron Co.. and John
P. Verre, notified their employers last
night that they would not come to work
OF Monday at the proposed reduction
Of wages. The strikers are members of
an amalgamated association of iron and
steel workers of the United States.
headquarters at Pittsburg and the strike
has taken place with the sanction of
that body, which agrees to support the
strikers.
NEw YORK. Aug. ga Boston spe-
cial says it is understood Butler will
this week address letter acceding to
the request of signers Of his petition.
asking him to run for governor The
claim is made at his head quarters that
20, 600 names have been received. and
that of these nearly 1000 are residents
CO this city. An absurd statement is
published, on authority of one of the
Butler leaders, that intimidation has
been resorted to by anti Butler men
TO prevent personsweil disposed towards
Butler frold signing his petitions, AID
that merchants have been threatened in
circulars emunatirg from the nation Il
banks in New York, which calls ufon
all business men TO see to it tina. no
greenbacker in their district shal! be
elected to congress or any high position
and that discount will be refuset; the
paper cf any business man WAC shal.
identify himself with ,De Gtee:.hack
cause. Butler, il is said, vii. soon take
the STUMP.
Salinas CITY. Aug. 27-S!lorily
after six O'Clock this noyniug 1. far
ner named Lemnel z. Shepard, re-
siding abcnt niles north II this
place near ;he roau le;ati4E4y 10 san
Juan, murdered lis daughter Eliza.
aged about % years. He then swal-
lowed a dose Of strychnine and blew
his own brains out with musket
loaded with quail shot. His wife
got up about 6 o'clock, made a fire
in the kitchen and went out to feed
her chickens. He arose about the
same time. washing and dressing
himself. While his wife was out he
went into an adjoining room occu
pied by the daughter, where he
struck the girl three or four times
on the head with . hatcllet, and then
cut her throat from ear to ear with
his pocket knife. She had just aris
en-, had her sLoas on and was in
the act of dressing herself when
stricken down by her father. :
sor, aged II years. was dressing
himself in an adjoining bedroom
and heard his sister say ''Papal pa
Dar' He ran out and met his moth
er coming in, and told her that his
father was heating Eliza. His moth
er entered the kitchen door and saw
her husband coming toward her
with bloody hands. She and the
son ran ont to the gate some twenty
yards distant, whereupon, looking
back. they saw fash. heard the re-
port Of the gun and saw the father
fall to the floor. The boy jumped
Oh horse and rode to the house of
Mr.. Kidd. their nearest neighbor,
about mile and half distant, and
gave the alarm. 1Ir. Kidd repaired
to the scene Of the tragedy and found
the daughter dead. the girl Oh her
bed which was saturated with blood.
and her father in q pool OF blood Oh
the kitchen floor. Mr.. Kidd has
tened to Salinas and informed the
coroner, who went out and held an
inauest; the verdict Of the jury be
ing in accordance with the foregoing
facts. The murderer and suicide is
represented rs always having been a
kind husband and father. and it is
difficult to arrive at the motive
which prompted the terrible deed.