West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-04-06
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CATION will soon be made as to the amount
OF Government gold at the several minis.
.....: Charges of a serious character are made
against Gutter, nominee for Navy Post
master-General.
The Secretary of the Treasury has author.
lied the minis at Philadelphia, San Fran.
cisco, and Carson, and the Assay Office at
New York to purchase bullion in lots not
exceeding ten thousand ounces, at the
equivalent OF the London rate, for coinage
into standard silver dollars, and the pay
ment to be made in silver dollars at the
assay Office, so soon as a sufficient number
shall have been coined for the purpose
In the meantime is payment to be made at
the latter places in gold coin. This is i'm.
tended to place the holders of small lots OF
shver on the same footing with owners Of
large amounts, and to use the new silver
dollars in the purchase of bullion.
Senator Thurman presented the resolution
OF the ONO State Grange of Patrons of
Husbandry, adopted mt the meeting nj
canon requesting the Ohio Congressman to
u'e all honorable means to prevent anv re.
auction OF the duties on wool or WOODEN
& DDS. The preamble recites that the exist
ing wool tariff has been on trial for nearly
eleven years, and under its operation
sheep-breedng and wool growing have been
grohtaby extended into every state and
territory oil the American Union, and il has
proved alike beneficial and satisfactory To
tne farmer, wooden manufacturer and con.
suner, and afforded the latter cheaper
WOODEN goods than at any former period
Items In GeneraI.
a Philadelphia dispatch says that James
Graham, aged twenty-seven years, and
single, has been arres ted on the charge Of
numbering John NJ. Armstrong, Mt Camden
NJ 81, January % last, and confesses TO the
crime: He was an apprentice under Benia
MIN Hunter, now in prison on the charge
ana says Hunter agreed to nav him IL he
accomplished the deed. He had several
interviews with Hunter on the subject of
the murder. lie says he was To col tho
money from the insurance comSan;es
rraham has been of dissolute habits of
late. His confession is believed by the
Sherlh, who states that the prisoner tells
the story with minuteness which con
authorities. There is great excitement
felt both in Camden and at PhiladeIpbia
over these startling DEVELOPMENTS
OSniy SIX towns were represented in the
STATE convention at Providence r. L. Of
me new National party at its lat, session
VIM. Foster was nominated for C;oyorn,r.
Jason Z. Hazard, Lieutenant Goyernor,
uenry Appleton, Secretary of State: and
nndrew IL. Moore, General IRE ,surer'...A
NO Janelro letter says the British steamer
2starte stranded at Castillos on the 3lst nj
January During the night the storm in.
creased, and at daylight only the tops of the
masts were seen above the water with seven
or elght Pers ms clinging to them. But no
heip could be rendered because of the high
sea. The sea continued rough until t6c
9th, when boat was got TO the isIets ncar
the wreck, but nothing was found excent
me PURIFYING corpses. Captain Bayne and
tnirty oil the crew persisted, only two men
1DsIos saved-Wm. Parsons, first mate, and
Donald Campbell, third engineer.
The remains of four men were found
In =.
on the Iron Mountain Road, Missouri. nm
Monday. They have been hurled y, p;a1
mont: The bodies when discovered wcre
horribly dlshgured and blackened. From
letters upon one of them il was learned that
ne was rom some town in Ohio, and had a
family III Is supposed that the men crawled
IN among the cotton to hide themselves onJ
get Tree ride; that they began smok;ns
setting the cotton on fire, and were so
emothered. The appearance of the bodies
when found was something dreadful.
Particulars of an explosion at Haw's saw.
MILL In Richmond, Va, have come to hand
when the boiler (which was TWENTY-FIVE.
morse power exploded a number of persons
we're az work in the mill, and the results
c. Thorp, Thomas White. two c ne
men, and two sons of the proprietor. aged
seven and eleven years who were in 9ha
miil at the time. Seven others, includ;no
me engineer, were injured, two fatal
thomas White, a man Killed leaves n wi}e
and eight children. The explosion Is snr
posed to have been caused by carelessness
IN aiiowlng the boiler TO get empty and hot
ana then turning cold water into II
samuel Chambers and George Collins two
,osl men en- VINO were convicted at the last
term OF Court, in Wilmington, Delaware of
having committed, on August Is last a
IeIonious assault on white female trarn
named Kate Smith, were hanged i'm the lax
yard AZ New Castle, March %, in the pres.
~ oi a no W Two hundred and twenty-five
peSple. The prisoners passed quiet night
ana arose at an early hour in the mornins
saying they felt much better than thew had AZ
any previous time since their conyiction
Ihey ate but little breakfast, and spent the
noInihg IN devotional exercises with their
spiritual advisers, the Revs Isaac Yonna
ana i. w. Herbert, both colored. Both men
asserted their innocence, and declared that
they were willing TO 60. '''''
At Philadelphia by the fall of a scafgoId
recently, Frank Petit was killed. and Neil
McLaughiin probably fatally injured
while Mrs. Wslcott and Mr.. ShewelI were
engaged IN scene in "The ExilesO at the
walnut street Theater, Philadelpbia. Mr.
eheWen tripped and fell against the lad1
who was seriously stabbed by the ponisyd
she heid IN her hand. The doctors fear in.
tefnaI hemOTrhage .... The steap,er Mas,a,,t
exploded near ScOrboro, n. Y. recentS
scene OF the widest terror followed and
When the steam cleared away there were
seen lying in the forward cabin. near The
stove, directly in front Of the engine.roon,
ie bodies OF dozen men. The steana az
tbe moor still created light vapOr. and tbo
surrounding wood work was drippino -,
us nearness TO the exploded pine. Two
were dead, and eight were badly ana
Two fatally scalded ......... Hon. I
vance, OF GaIlipOlis, Ohio. on ~
way TO Washington, arrived et Cincinnati
hree hours after arrival he was in receint
oi a note written in scrawling hand In
~ the motel by some one unknown. ststino
that member OF the old Fourth Virginis
regiment, was lying sick in Covinot,r 20
asked assistance Of him. Atsir o'oIocIr ~ a.
evening" he left the hotel for Covinoton aaS
nothing from that time was head H., ~
Is mysterious case. The supnositior T.
that he had been decOyed By an enerov -
murdered .........A mob broke into the All a.
Ltueton, W. Va, q few nights AGO ana
ofagging out John Wallace, the nurdeyey "a
Mss church, they took him few rnfIes M,
the railroad and hanged him 20 a tree
an A0beville, Ala, a dispatch tells tbe storv
on me hanging Of Jerry, Isaac and Jacob
,hiids, negroes and brothers. for The ror,
ger 81 Mrs. 1On in 1876. The e1eeutfo,
~ Witnessed BY about ten thousand neo.
Ple. Jerry said al were innocent. bnt maj
ssc hallis, the prosecutor, know ,Vbo
HiiIed Mrs. Ton, Tor he had Offered ~,
gerry 800 in October previous A. ba.