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II. W. Curtis, Register Of Deeds of Wash-
ington County, Kansas, is a'defaulter to the
amout of $4,000 or So, 600, and has left the
country-gone to England, it is supposed,
which is the land of his birth. 1t is believed
he took with him in cash nearly or quite the
amount stated. He left wife and two chill
dren entirely destitute.
Gov. Tabor has sold out his one-third in
terest in the Little Pittsburg Mine at Lead
vile for S1,90J, zoo cash. David Moffat and
Jerome b. Chaffee were the purchasers.
W. X. Bell, the Ascending express en-
ployee of Kansas City, was arrested in Flori-
da on the Sth and g 800 of the stolen money
recovered. He accompanied the officer on
his return home. r~'
Mr. John c. Gauit, at present Assistant
General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad, has been appointed
General Manager of the consolidated Wabash
and st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern
Railway, with headquarters at st. Louis.
The consolidation of the two lines will be
consummated, it is thought, about the LIST Of
November, after which it will be designated
as the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific.
At Prattsville, Vinton County, o., on the
morning Of the Sth, John Sharp had a quar-
rel with his wife; her uncle, d. G. Benja-
min, an old man and minister, interfered
in defense of his niece, and Sharp seized a
club and beat Benjamin's brains out. His
wife and daughter, the latter aged 10, tried
10 prevent the murder, but the brutal hus-
band turned upon his wife and beat her so
severaly that it was thought she could not
recover. The murderer fed, but officers
were soon upon his track and his capture
was doubtless effected.
The revenue officers captured an illicit dis
tillery in operation in Cincinnati on the 9th.
1t is owned by Frank Address and located at
No. 90 Sycamore Street. rs
The Wisconsin Democratic State Conven-
ton, held at Madison on the 9th, adopted
platform declaring, among other things, that
the Union is indissoluble; that the Govern
ment has proved itself strong enough TO pre-
vent any disruption, and that the great dam
ger now to self-government is centraliza-
ton, towards which the Republican
party is rapidly tending. The Inaugural
ton of Mr.. Hayes into the Presiden-
tial office to which Samuel J. Tilden,
it is alleged, was lawfully elected, is de-
nounced in unmeasUred terms. The Demo-
cratic party is declared TO be utterly opposed
TO violence, intimidation or fraud, by what
ever party practiced or wherever done.
Gold and silver are .declaredto be the consti
tutional money of the country, and all other
currency should be- based thereon and con-
yertible into the same on demand. Alex
ander Mitchell of Milwaukee was nominated
for Governor on the first ballot.
The hearing of evidence in the case of
Henry j. Gully, charged with the murder of
COrnelia Chisholm, on trial at DeKalb, Kem-
per County, Miss, began on the Sth. Sew
enty witnesses were sworn and excluded
from the Courtroom. OF these 80 were for
the State and IS for the defense. Mrs.
Chisholm, mother of the murdered girl, was
the first witness. She gave a detailed ac
count of the shooting of her husband, son
and daughter at the Jail, and swore posi-
lively that the defendant, Henry j. Gully,
was the person who shot both
her daughter and her husband.
+. C. Sinclair, Sheriff of Kemper County at
the time of the murder, testified regarding
the arrest of Chisholm under a warrant
charging him with the murder of John w.
Gully a brother of defendant. Among
the crowd gathered around outside
the house was defendant, Henry
j. Gully, who personally charged Chisholm
with killing his brother or hiring him killed
Witness testified that the keys of the Jail
were twisted from his hand while Chisholm
and his family were in Jail. He did not see
any OF the shooting.
Additional returns from the California
election do not materially change the result
as at first reported. The Republicans have
elected their candidate for Governor George
c. Perkins, and the rest Of the State officers,
with the exception of Chief Justice, by an
average plurality Of perhaps 10000. Rob-
ert f. Morrison, elected Chief Justice,
was the only candidate receiving the COM
bined support of the opposition. The Rail-
road Commissioners and Associate Justices
are divided up between the three parties. The
Republicans elect three Congressman GER
tainly, ami probably the fourth, and will very
likely control Che state Legislature.
The AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road has begun the surveys for an extension |
of its line from Pueblo to Denver. f-Ia /
President Hayes attended the opening of
the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition on the |
10th. He made a brief address.
John Shillito, the Cincinnati " dry-goods |
prince" died suddenly on the 10th, aged Is. |
There were one million bushels of wheat |
in the st. Louis elevators on the 10th, but |
with only four and half feet Of water in the 4
river at Cairo its movement was greatly re-
tarded, barges not being able to carry over |
half cargo. Vessels are waiting at New .
Orleans, meanwhile, for freights for Europe. /
Accounts have been received of a fresh I
outbreak in Carter County, Ky, between the
Underwood and Holbrook families. On the
9TH Squire Holbrook was shot and killed by
a party in ambush, and on the Monday fol-
lowing one Of the Underwoods was shot by a
member Of the Holbrook faction. Both par
ties are reported arming for further blood
shed.
George c. Perkins, the Governor-elect Of
California, is a native of Maine, and his age
is 40 In his Eighteenth yearhes landed in
California and settled ini Butte County, I
where he found employment at farming,
mining. etc, and gradually amassed for
time. For two years he represented Butte
County in the State Senate.
A Santa Fe dispatch OF. the 10Th SAYS the {