Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-15
tractor for widening Dutch Gap, Elias Hall,
superintendent of blasting operations, and

Charles F. Stickney, defaulting Treasurer
Of the Manufacturers Gas Company at Fall
River, Mass, = has been sentenced to five
years in the State-prison.
Elihu Burritt, the "Learned Blacksmith" )"
died on the 9th at his home in New Britain,
Conn. He was In his SSth year. i Dl.
The Dime Savings Bank of York, Pa, has
suspended. Itis supposed It will pay 70 or
so cents on the dollar. Eftf q
Three children of Daniel Martin (colored)
were burned to death In house at George
town, .. &C., on the night of the sth. 5
Miss Mollie Burdett, of Haysville, a town
in the oil regions Of Pennsylvania, was in the
habit of reading story papers after going to
bed. A few nights ago she retired as usual
to read, having placed an oil-lamp on a
stand near the head of the bed. 1t is sup
posed she read until she fell asleep, leaving
the lamp burning, subsequently upsetting
it and setting fire to the bed-clothes.
The fire spread so rapidly that the
building was in few minutes enveloped,
rendering escape from Miss 'Burdett's room
on the upper floor impossible. Several des.
perate attempts were made. to rescue the
poor girl, but all failed. Just before the
roof fell a piercing cry was heard, and a
white figure was seen standing at the win
dow of the room occupied by the unfor-
tunate girl, but only for a moment, as the
roof almost Immediately came down with a
crash.
The floor Of Mech,nics' Hall, in North
Berwick, Me-, fen on TOWN. meet ng day,
precipitsting some $50 people to the floor
below. Four men were seriously injured and
many others less severely. Z, r4STqF ff.r.
FOREIGN. Is SIai
William Hewitt, the venerable English
writer, died on the 4th. CysC-FzS--,
Recent advices from st. Petersburg state
that there Is unusual activity among the
revolutionary classes in Russia, and they
display almost Incredible boldness. A pub
iication declaring that the Governor of
Cbarkoff had been condemned to death by
the Russian Socialist party for the inhuman
treatment Of political prisoners, and that
the act of assassination was consequently
executed by one Of that party, was
openly posted in the halls of
the University on the day after
he was shot, AT Kief the police made a de-
scent upon house where a secret printing
press was in operation. On entering the
apartment they were met by a storm of bull
lets, and one officer and two geEdarmes
were wounded. Eleven men and five wom-
en- were arrested, four of the former being
dangerously wounded. On the premises
were found and seized printing material,
counterfeit seals of the various public de-
partments, forged documents, revolutionary
pamphlets, and number Of revolvers and
poniards.
. sea .sI xl.~
London at the end of March for the Con-
tinent, resting one night at the British En-
bassy in Paris, and then proceed to the
italian lakes, where she will be met by the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught, on their
wedding tour. Her Majesty thence goes to
Germany.
A dispatch from Calcutta says thousands
of the natives are dying in Cashmere of
famine.
Nineteen lives were lost by a recent ex-
plosion in Deep Drop Pit Colliery, Eng
land.
The house of Peter Drouillard, a French
farmer living near Sandwich, Ontario, was
burned on the night Of the 1st, and his two
daughters, aged 8 and Is, perished in the
flames. The charred bodies of the two sis
ters were found in the smoking ruins, tight
ly clsaped in each others shriveled arms.
Drouillard was severely burned in trying
to save his children, who slept in an upper
room. A travelling clock-peddler, who was
stopping there for the night, was shoekingly
burned, but will recover.
A telegram from Tashkend states that af-
ter the death Of Shere Ali at Mazari Sheriff,
bloody conflict broke out among the fol-
lowers Of various pretenders to the Afghan
throne, and the partisans of Yakoob Khan
were victorious.
Gen. Melikof telegraphed on the 9th that
foreign physicians, at q meeting held in
Witlianka, have declared that the epidemic
may be considered 10 have died out, as
there has been no case since the 9th Of Feb
rTry; but, as it is impossible to guarantee
that 1t may not reappear, especially at Wit
lianka, they recommend the continuance OF
certain precautions. The Gordon around the
Government Of Astrakhan, which the foreign
physicians judged no longer necessarys has
been withdrawn.
The Parliamentary discipline bill hasbeer
rejected in the Reichstag. This is consider
ed an ignominious defeat for the Govern.
ment- Bismarck watched the division with
apparent Indifference.
The English House of Commons has by
vote of 2l7 to 103 rejected motion in favol
of female suffrage. .lE
The village of Dorozema, in Hungary
containing 400 houses, was swept away by
flood in the river Theiss. The inhabitantl
took refuge In the surrounding hills.
GENERAL.
The National Convention Of Greenbacl
clubs, called by Brick Pomeroy, met a
Chicago on the 4th, about $50 delegates be
Ing present. A platform was adopted de
claring that Postmasters should be elected
that the Government should prohibit the i'm
portation of Chinese servile labor; that
Labor Bureau should be established; max
ing law disfranchising any person who of
fers to purchase or does purchase votes, an,
calling fer other innovations in the Govern
ment.
The amended Postal bill, Just passed b
Congress, divides all mailable matter int
four classes; First, written matter; sec
ond, periodical publications; third, miscel
laneous printed matter; and fourth, mer
chandise. Mail matter of the second clas
embraces all the newspapers and periodical
issued as often as four times annually. A
publications of this class, with certain ex
ceptions, when sent from the office {
publication, including sample copies, Q
when sent from q news agency I