The daily gazette., 1878-09-21
Gene raj N ews.

Juuse treat, OF the United States
Dlstflct Court of s.. Louis, has issued
q ihaudamus 10 compel Franklin county
MO-, 10 pay its default Bd interest on
some $4,000 county bdndy.
Chares f. Lubing, paying teller Of
the First National Bank df fMshanoy Civ
"a, has been convicted oil embezzlement
70 the amouRt of So, 800 and falsifyiop
HIS DOCKS. sentence deferred.
Mccormick & Bros, pf New York
contractors, who recently went into
bankruptcy, with an aggregate indeb :
ness Of SG97,00, have no assets except
wearing apparel in actual use, and which
Is exempt by law.
=, ihioIinatlon having been rece we'd
IIat I all the clerks and employees of the
| Vlcksburg pos office, with one excep-
tion, are sick with yellow fever, the ac.-
ing postmaster General teegraphed him
to-day to employ four persons tempora-
rily to assist him.
Judge Swing, acting in place of Judge
Baxter, has appointed one hundred
supervisors of election In Cincinnati.
The list is complete with the exception
OF two or three to hear from, and stands
! hltY-one republicans, eighteen democrats,
nine nationals and tweIlty-tbree socia-
lists.
From detailed statement af the re-
celp's iram customs at the various ports
In the United States for The fiscal year
enoed June ~, 1878, the following is the
showing for Baltimore i: Receipts from
Gust oms sources, $3,S4S,82S: expendi-
t1res. $l273, 2S4. Per centage of cost
of collec ion 0 per Cent.
A dispatch from Baroadoes says that
Gov. Strachan, now IN England, will
not return to the West Indies, as it is
said he is required for special service In
the East. lie is great Greek scholar,
and was secretary to Mr.. Glads one when
he went as commissioner to the Ionian
| lsIands some years ago.
Col. Thomas B. Thorpe, a we'll know
writer and speaker, who has been under
treatment for Bright's di4 ease ofthe kid
n,ys at the Roosevelt Hospital, New
York, since the Sd instau died quietly
while asleep yesterday morning. His
two daughters, who have been in con-
slant attendance upon him, were PIE
sent.
The coroner's jury in Cew York, in
the case of THE" Allen, cha. ge d with
killing Edward Malloy, rendered ver-
dict to-day that Edward Malloy came to
his death from pistol shot wound &C
cidentally received at the bands of Tbeo-
dore Allen. Coroner Wotman admitted
Allen in 100. bail to await the action of
o the grand jury.
The funeral of Edward Malloy, who
was shot in New York few days ago
by "The" Allen, who said he did it
by mistake, took place last evening from
au undertaker's establishment in that
city. Hundreds of mel and women
viewed the remains. Allen, who had
been discharged by the coroner, tainted
twice after looking at The face of his
dead friend.
The S 'cretary of the Treasury has
directed assistance to be rendered TO the
crew OF the foundered spanish frigate
Pizarro, who were brought to Delaware
breakwater, and also TO forty shipwreck-
| ed seamen at Jacksonville, Fla. The
officers and crew of The wrecked Spanish
man-of-war Plxaro left the Breakwater
for New York last evening on the United
States revenue cutter Halhil on.
Senator Butler, during his recent
tfavals, met a person who ingeuuously
asked" Are you The man who killed SO
many people in South Ca tolina ?" The
Senator, who knew nothing whatever
about his qhestioner, replied amlably, 81
presume you have killed more men than
| have" A cheerful laugh from The sur
rounding crowd led the Senator tc the
discovery that he had been speaking to a
doc or.
The Secretary Of State at Washington
has no, yet been officially informed of
the arrival of the Chinese embassy.
The usage is for the minister from a
foreign government TO advise the de-
partment of his arrival Ell her in person
or by note, more generally the latter
and TO ask for the appointment of time
When he can present his credentials to
the President. The SecFe ary consults
with the President and fixes such time,
of which the minister's promptly inform
ed.
While the stockholders of the South
Pass Jttty Company we're holding IA
meeting in S. Louis yes terday for the
election of new directors d temporary in
junction was granted by Judge Thayer,
of the Circuit Court, restraining the coin
pany or its officers from rtlinquishing to
the United States or any other body or
person an assignment made in January
last by Jas. b. Eads 10 the South Pass
Jetty Company for the payment of $780,
00e to which he Is to become entitled
when he obains aud malutalns a letty
channel of twenty-five feet in depth.
The Late Ex-GOv. Bard.
Ex-Gov. Samuel Bard who died of
v.lIow fever MT II Atom Ron re La Thurs