Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-07
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Nlnth DIVISION OF the Railway Mail Service,
Cleveland, Ohio, will succeed Vail as GEN.
eral Superintendent Of the Railway Mail
Service.
About 20 temporary clerks, the majority
women, have been discharged by the Treas
ury Department, the appropriation being
exhausted.
The public debt statement of December .
shows a decrease in the debt during the
preceding month of SS,214 ,242, with the fol-
lowing balances in the Treasury; Coin
S22S 1854 1855; currency, $, %,G69, ,S26, besides
$4,000, 900 held for redemption of fractional
currency; special deposits, Ss7, ,OSO, ,OO0-total
in Treasury, S275,s14 ,5SS. Coin bonds out
standing, Sl,79S, I5O, ,75O; legal tenders, SS46,-
I4S,On. Total debt, S2,272, 526,s2s. Debt,
less cash ir Treasury, s., 2,027, Al, ,S25.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The Office of the Clerk of the District
Court Of st. Mary's Parish, La, was raided
on the night of the sth of November and the
ballot-boxes destroyed, together with their
contents. Newman, the Clerk of the Court,
had duplicate poll-lists at his house,
and on the night of the 10Th
party of five armed men broke
into his house and began shooting at him.
Newman seized his gun and fired at the in
truders, one of whom he recognized as Will
son, acting District Attorney. Wilson was
wounded and subsequently died, it being
given out that he was accidentally shot by
his own brother. Newman has gone to
New Orleans and made affidavit to the facts
above stated, and Gov. Nichols will order a
searching investigation. Parties of consid-
ara hi 10 -
plicated in the affair, which Il is supposed
was designed to destroy evidence of fraud
In the election or canvass of votes.
William Ryar, late General Agent Of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny at Louisville, KY, is a defaulter to the
amornt of $4,000.
The official returns of the election in Mich
igan show the following totals on Governor:
Croswell, Republican, 126, ,S99; Barnes, Dem
ocrat, 9,6S2; Smith, Greenback, 1883;
Snyder, Prohibition, S,13S. Republican
plurality, 46,717.
The official returns of the election in nli-
nois show the following totals on Treasurer:
Smith, Republican, 215, ,2s3; Cronkrite, Dem
ocrat, 169, ,ss5; Bates, National, 65,673; Re-
publican plurality, 1913.
Hancock (Democrat), defeated for Con-
gress in the Fifth Texas District by Jones
(Greenbacker), it is said will contest the
seat.
DIR. Henry j. Livingstone, late agent at
the Crow Creek Agency, has been arrested
upon an Indictment charging him with the
forgery of vouchers. Several clerks and
traders are also under Indictment for COM
plicity in the alleged frauds.
Gov. George s. Houston has been elected
United States Senator from Alabama to sue
ceed Senator Spencer. Gov. Houston is
native of Tennessee, born in 1911, but re-
moved when quite young to Alabama. He
is lawyer by profession, and has served in
Congress several terms. He was elected
Governor Of Alabama in 1876.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson has given $500
as a contribution to the fund for defraying
the expenses of a Homeopathic Yellow
Fever Commission which is to meet in New
Orleans.
New Orleans will continue to be the cap
ital of Louisiana, the proposition to remove
the seat Of Government to Baton Rouge hav-
ing been defeated by some 5000 votes.
DIR. Buck, Sheriff of Claiborne County
Miss, was fatally shot few days ago while
attempting to arrest a negro desperate
named Harrison Page, who two years ago
killed the Chancery Clerk of the county !;
and Robert Lum, one of the Sheriff's depu
tie, was killed at the same time. Page es-
capped, although some Of his accomplices are
reported killed.
The Louisiana rice crop Of 1878 is esti-
mated at 155, 900 barrels, against 143 1000 for
the preceding year.
At public meeting held at Memphis on
Thanksgiving Day, at which most of the
leading cit zens were present, resolutions
were adopted, thanking all societies and in
diyiduals who had assisted them during the
recent yellow fever epidemic.
The steamers Charles Morgan, bound
down, and the Cotton Valley, bound up,
collided two miles south of Donaldsonville,
La, on the morning Of the LIT. The Cotton
Valley sank almost Immediately after the
collision. Sol. Meyer, Daniel Gehr and Hen
ry Levy, merchants Of Alexandria, La, and
Miss Sanford, aged 16, of Leudon Coun-
ty, Va, were drowned, together with IL or
Is roustabouts. The Cotton Valley belong
ed to the Red River transportation Com
pany. She was valued a $4,000 and had a
$4,000 cargo on board, all of which is to-
tai loss.
J.C. Stoddard, of Pine Plains, Allegsn
County, Mich, on the morning of the 3Oth
was found sitting in chair dead, with his
gun between his legs, and his head shatter-
ed. His wife was found dead in bed, and a
child, three years old, missing. 1t is be-
lieved Stoddard killed his wife and child
and then shot himself, during an attack of
temporary insanity.
Jackson, the county seat of Breathitt
County, Ky., has recently been the scene OF
bloody combat between two rival bands
of outlaws, under the respective leaderships
of Bill Strong and Jack Ackman. Each
party numbered n dozen or more OF
brave and reckless men, heavily arm
ed, who fortified themselves in ada
cent buildings, and whenever one OF
either party showed his head it was
the target for the unerring aim of his an
tagonists. A law-and-order party was
formed, under the command of County
JudgeJohn w. Burnett, for the protection
of some prisoners in the County Jail. Judge
Burnett was shot through the heart and in.
stantly killed, and number of the despe'
radoes had also been killed or wounded. A
last accounts the mob still held possession O
the town.
Tue official canvass of the vote in Mis-
souri, shows the totals on Judge of the Su
preme Court: Norton, Democrat, 1s1 ,959
Dennis, Republican, 96,s94; Gistrap
Greenbacker, 61,l67. Democratic plurality
s4,965.
Bishop j. p. B. Wilmer, of the Episco
pal Diocese of Louisiana, died suddenl,
at New Orleans on the I'd, OF apoplexy
He was a native of Virginia, about 81 year
OF age.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The official totals Of the vote in New Yor
are as follows: Republican, 39l, ,341; Dem
ocfatic, 1853, ,432; Greenback, 1874; Prohibi
tion, 4,225. Republican plurality, 37,sO9.
Richard Evans, Daniel Garrison and j. ]