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to Texas for trial. The condemned man in. sisted to the last that he was innocent
 fire at Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed ,Den- hams blaming mill on Scranton avenue the Variety Iron Works, the Atlantic and Great Western freight depot, Rust, King & Clint's building and lumber, and large quantity of lumber belonging to different yards. The loss is about Sl00,000.
 The sixth convention of the German Young Mems Christian Associations of America has been held in Cincinnati. t.5 1tl sn.I A dispatch from Brentwood, Dakota Terri tory, says that three Indians, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged commit ted suicide by hanging themselves in their cells. n 0- -.tlI-.1-TT Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, of Mississippi, who died recently in New Orleans, left will be- queathing her whole estate to Jefferson Davis l The estate embraced in this legacy includes two large plantations in the upper part of the | State and an elegant villa at Beauvoir, on the seacoast, where Mir. Davis is now soJourning. The yacht Jeannette sailed from San Fran cisco on an exploring expedition to the North Pole. The vessel has been fitted out by James | Gordon Bennett, but is in charge of United States naval officers, the commander being | Lieutenant George w. De Long. The Jean- nette will be accompanied to Behring's Straita 1 by the schooner Fannie A. Hyde as a coal and | provision tender. " . 1 On September 2l, 1878, William Haggerty, | a young farmer, for some years a resident of Johnson county, Mo-, was murdered in a cowardly manner at picnic near warrens- ! burg by one Frank Davidson, who the other | day expated his crime upon the gallows. The execution being public, at least 900 persons i crowded and iostled each other about the scaf- l fold, which had been erected in the center of | a lovely natural amphitheater, about half a mile north ot the town. The prisoner was l conducted to the scaffold in a close carriage surrounded by guard and a noisy crowd, and walked unaided to the trap, where he looked with indifference upon the vast throng, and 1 with the exception of few words to the clergymen Tn attendance had nothing to say. | At quarter to twelve the trap was sprung, and in fifteen minutes the body cut down and turned over to his relatives. The crime | for which Davidson suffered death was con- mitted while under the influence of hquor and was the result of an insulting proposal from the murderer to his victims wife. The husband demanded an apology, and was shot three times by Davidson, who suddenly be- came perfect fiend.'
 At Edgington, H., Lee Robbins shot and | instantly killed his sister, age twenty, and 1 then shot himself, infiicting fatal wounds. Miss Robbins was engaged to a man named | Richards, and was to have been married on the day she was killed. Her brother had been trying to prevent the marriage, but she re- fused to break her promise. frank Memph1S fIenn. ) shoemaker, died a few days ago after a short l illness, and a post-mortem examination, held by six leading doctors of the city, revealed the | fact that death resulted from yellow fever. Considerable excitement prevailed when the announcement was made that it was genu- inc sporadic case.
 The National Association of Lumber Dealers held their annual convention in Chicago, the sessions being strictly private.
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 The coinage at the mins of the United States during the fiscal year ended June 90, 1879, as follows: Gold-Double eagles, S57, ,234, $40; eagles. Sl, ,03l, 40; half eagles, $l, ,442 ,l30; three-dollars, Sl09, ,lS2; quarter eagles, Sl, ,l66, 800; dollars S3, ,020; total gold, S60, ,9S6, 9l2. Silver-Dollars, S27, ,227, ,050; halt dollars, S225; quarter dollars, Sll2.50; dimes, $45; total, S27, ,227, ,432.50. Minor coinage ge-Five-cents, Sl,l75; three-cents, $9S4; cents, S95, ,639; total minor coinage, S97,79S. Total coinage-S9, eos, ,02l pieces; value, SSS, ,3l2, l42.50.
 Foreign News. .+
 Two hundred houses have been destroyed by a fire at Irkutsk, Russia.
 At Ottawa, Canada, a boy named vandette quarreled with his six-year-old sister and shot her the temple with a revolver, death re- sulting from the wound.
 A London dispatch says that 300 sheep from Boston were slaughtered at Liverpool be- cause it was found they were infected with the foot and mouth disease. This discovery, the dispatch says, will cause the United States to be scheduled an infected country for sheep. The walls of the fortresses at Widdin, Silis- ttia, Rustchuk and Varna, Bulgaria, have been destroyed, and the earthworks are lett to the operation of the weather.
 NJ. De Lesseps, engineer of the projected canal across the Isthmus of Darien, thinks it can be built for $50 000, 900, and that the difi- culties will not be so formidable as those at- tending the construction of the SueZ canal 1 Ground for this canal is to be broken on the first of next January. =.
 The British House of Commons has adopted 8 motion to establish department of agricul- ture and commerce under special cabinet minister. # aHlE
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg reports that dissenters from the orthodox church, hitherto unrecognized by the state, are to have entire liberty of worship. This affects 1000, 900 l Russian subjects. rsE | A fire which recently broke out near Prince Alexander's palace at Tirnova, Bulgaria, de- stroyed forty horses. Five soldiers were killed.
 The request of Marshal MacMahon to be permitted to attend the funeral of the late Prince Imperial was refused by the French government.
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