West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-10-26

OF tne 4 rencn Academy, Dut lett IL on the
election Of the skeptical photographic and
philosopher, NJ. Littre, and during his latest
years was Incorporating in his opposition
10 the Republicans, especially 10 N. Gam.
beta, with whom he had spirited con.
troversy.
The First National Bank OF Tamaoua.
Penn, organized In 1863 upon the ashes
of the Anthracite State Bank OF 1884, has
suspended payments, with assets Of $3.50, 900
and individual deposits Of 100000. The
suspension Is caused through the failure of
stocks and iron OF Philadelphia, whose otes
went TO protest the day Of the failure.
William Durham, an old and respected
citizen of Evansville, Ind, was drowned
lately, while fishing in the Ohio River, Cd.
Posite that city. His body was recovered
i'm the afternoon.
Southern Itcm-
freight train on the Louisville and
Nashville Road, running twenty miles an
hour, WAS thrown from the track fifteen
miles from Nashville, Tenn, by misplaced
switch. The engine and six cars were
wrecked. The engineer, Thomas Strather,
and the fireman, Michael Barr, were scalded
to death by steam. Their cries were heart
rendlDg but no assistance could be given
them.
John Postoak has been sentenced in the
United States Court, at Fort Smith, Ark.
to be hanged on the goth Of December next.
The annals OF crime do not present n more
dlabolical and wicked sin than that for
which John Postoak has been tried. con
Vlcted, and sentenced TO suffer death. He
is a bali-breed Creek Indian. His victims
were John lngley, white man, and his
VIE. In October, 1877, POstoak became
lncensed at lDgley for his refusal to give
him tobacco. He went off, borrowed a
revolver, and came back TO Ingley's
mouse, called lngley out to the door, and
shot him down. He then placed his revolver
to Mrs. lngley's breast and shot her, killing
both instantly. The InRleys had one child,
only twenty months old, who was left alone
With the dead bodies Of his parents, and,
the house being some distance of the road
the murder was not discovered until eleven
DAYS after IL was perpetrated. The child
was then on the very verge Of the grave
from starvation, and the dogs had almost
completely devoured the woman, and had
also eaten the flesh from the face of Ingley
When asked by the Judge IL he had any.
thlnS to say why the sentence OF the law
should not I've passed upon him Postoak
replied that he had nothing at all TO saw.
lie seemed perfectly stoical, taking his sen.
tence with an air OF indifference.
courier arriving at Natchez, from
Waterproof La, on the evening of the 10th,
reports that two thousand FIVE hundred
armed negroes surrounded Waterproof that
day, and threatened to burn and sack the
town. tits supposed they burntJ. Senega's
place, on Lake St John, four miles below
Waterproof. A call for armed sssistnnce
was made on Natchez, and one hundred mon
left on the ferryboat 10 aid the whites at
Waterproof il needed.
Fires.
special from Edinburg, Pa, TO the
Pittsburg Commercials Gazette gives the mar.
ticulars of the destruction of that place bv
fire on the morning OF the 18th. The FIRE
broke out at half past three o'clock, near
Nllber,s livery stable, Main-street, spread.
log rapidly, and soon swept over an entire
Dlock. The bremen were promptly on hand.
but their efforts were parslyzed by the in.
sufflclency of water Total loss estima cd
at from $3.50, 900 to 100000, largely insured.
Two hundred and twenty-five buildings
were burned, and the town almost com.
Pletely destroyed. Much suffering among
/ the losers. A relief committee WAS organized
and the contributions of food from adjacent
towns and farmers in the vicinity was dis.
tributed TO the homeless
Notes nom Abroad,
During a performance at the Coliseum
Iheater, Liverpool, England, which is now
used as Music Hall, a fight occurred under
the gallery. The audience, hearing. but he
ing unable to see the disturbance. became
alarmed cry OF fire was raised when a
terrible panic ensued, people rushing for
the doors, and sliding down the pillars Of the
gallery on the heads of the OCCUPANTS OF the
PIT. post impeded exit. Forty men and
lads ana two women were suffocated. MANY
persons were severely injured
Heugh, BalfOur Il Co, of Manchester. have
lalled. Liabilities estimated at between
a. 100000 and G. 100000. The firm of
Heugh, Balfour d Co. was one of the oldest
Eastern shipping houses IN Manchester.
Two hundred thousand pounds of their
liabilities fall chiefly on Manchester cloth
and yarn agents.
The Reichstag at Berlin mas rejected par.
agraPh sixteen Of the Socialist bill.
authorizing the expulsion OF agitators from
the towns. The rejection was in oopse.
quence Of difference between the Ma.
uonal Liberals and Conservatives. the
latter endeavoring TO introduce an,onJ
mems increasing the stringency para.
graph. Inc paragraphs authorizing
the refusal and license to publishers ana
booksellers, and forbidding the circuia.
non OF periodicals under certain circum.
stances, and constituting Court of Appeal
IN the manner proposed by the committee
namely, OF four Councillors and five
2Tuuges, with President appointed by the
Emperor-were adopted. The Consel vstj We
amendment, giving the Emperor the unre.
strlCted right OF selection Of the President
oil the Court, was rejected