Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-19

Annie, sged IL, daughter of John Reynolds
was taken from the ruins of her fathers
house, dead. A number of other persons
were more or less injured, one or two per-
haps fatally.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
At Goldsboro, N. c., in Komgay's foun-
dry, boiler exploded on the 10th, killing j.
b. Timberlske, foreman, and badly scald-
ing four others.
John p. Phair was hanged at Windsor,
VT, on the 10th, for the murder of Miss Anna
Freize, the keeper Of a house of i'll repute,
in June, 1874. The evidence against Phair
was largely circumstantial, and he died pro-
testing his innocence. He had been once
reprieved, the time of his execution being
originally set. for April 6, 1877.
At Shohola, Penn, on the 9th, George
Hass cut his wife's throat and then drowned
himself. The cause Of the tragedy is not
stated.
A court-martial for tine trial of Gen. Da-
vid S. Stanley, on charges preferred by Gen.
w. B. HazeD, convened at New York City
on the 18th. There has been a personal diff
ficulty of long standing between the two
officers. - - H e -
Gen. Richard Taylor, son of President
Zachary Taylor, and brother law of JEFF
ferson Davis, died in New York City on the
11th. Gen. Taylor served in the Confeder-
ate Army during the late war, and had just
published book Of his personal memoirs.
In reply to a New York letter to the Lon
don Times, stating that Edison's electric
light was known to be a failure, Prof. Edi-
son declares that his electric light is COM
plete success, and can be furnished at one
third the cost Of gas. He expects to be able
to make the whole thing public
within two months, when he will
burn 500 lights at Menlo Park. The
delay has been for the want of a perfect
generator of electricity, and this Prof. Edi-
son has himself added TO his inventions. II
has been supposed that the lamps themselves
would be very expensive, but they are sim
ply small coil of platinum wire placed in
glass bulb. Prof. Edison says they will
cost, complete, not more than $l.50 apiece.
The Providence Savings Bank and Trust
Company Of Providence, Lucerne County
Penn, has suspended. 1t has about $40, ,00(
of liabilities and 500, 900 of assets, the latter
however comprising no inconsiderable por.
tion Of worthless notes and bonds.
FOREIGN.
The English troops in Zululand have me-
with additional disasters, and it is feared
the worst is not yet known. Col. Pearson:
command, which had been for some weeks
beleaguered at Ekowe, and was probably or
the verge of starvation, made a desperate
attempt TO cut its way through the African
forces by which it was surrounded. The
Zulus attacked the sortie party with grea
vigor and ferocity, killing thei largel
number of them and driving tn,
rest back to Ekowe. About the samt
time a convoy of supplies intended for thu
beleaguered command, proceeding from
Derby to Luneburg, escorted by 104 men o.
the Eighth Regiment, was surprised on tht
River Intombe, and only 15 escaped
slaughter. The dead and missing compris,
Captain Moriarity and 40 men. Twenty
wagon loads Of supplies were lost. Col
Pearson's situation was considered des
perate, and it is probable ere this that hi
whole command has been slaughtered.
A dispatch from Pesth, Hungary, 10th
says that IT 900 persons in and about Siege
din are still subsisting on charity, and tha
the supply Of bread is becoming exhausted
10 TeuueT sliu NOTet, L
for 10 days continuously.
The Astrachan plague is declared over anC
Gen. Melikoff and all foreign doctors hav
gone home. 60 -s - . st
Another unsuccessful attempt to assas
| sinate the CZar was made on the 14th. TIL
full official account of the affair says: To
ward 8 o'clock this morning, as the En-
peror was taking his customary walk, a re
specially dressed man, wearing a militar
cap with a cockade, advanced towards him
and, as the Emperor approached nearer
drew q revolver from the pocket of hi
overcoat and fired four shots at him
The officers of gendarmerie quickl
closed about the man and
again fired his pistol, wounding one of tn
officers. The name Of the assassinis Skoloi
he is about 80 years old, and is said to hav
formerly been employed in the Office of tn
Ministry of Finance. st. Petersburg wa
Illuminated at night on account of the En-
peror's providential escape. All of the Eu
ropean sovereigns, as did also the Presider
Of the United State, telegraphed their cor
gratulations to the Emperor.
GENERAL.
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amount of nearly 500, ,O00, 900 were receive
at the Treasury Department recently in
single day {April ~, in response to an az
vertisement Of the Department, offering Il
sale bonds to the amount of $59,585, 900
order to take up the outstanding 5-20s. I'll
, New York Bank of Commerce took $40, 600
900, the First National Bank SIC, 900 900, al
the Continental National Bank $1,000, ,0C
1t is understood that these subscription
} were made in the interest of certain synd
l Gates, and that considerable portion of Il
; bonds will go to Europe.
e The New York Times (Republican) h
been gathering information from about / o
different localities, comprising the most il
portant points in each State, regarding I
! choice of candidates most likely TO be ma
e by the Republican and Democratic part
l. for the Presidential mpaign of 1880.
summing up the reports received the Tin
says "the results point Enthusiastically
s the nomination of Gen. Grant by the r
publicans, and of Mr.. Tilden by the DEN
: Gratis"
:. The Chinese Six Companies OF San Fra
d cisco, in response to numerous applicable
: for Chinese laborers to go to Mississip
Is Louisiana and other Southern States, to Ia