Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-30

The American Ministers to Peru, Chilli
and Bolivia have been instructed to repre-
sent to their respective Governments that
the United States will be ready at any time
when requested by each of those nations
now at war TO use its good offices to bring
about peace. This step has been taken by
our Government as an evidence of its friendly
feeling toward these nations, and the inter-
est of our South American commerce.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The wheat crop of Illinois this year, ac-
cording to figures received by the State
Board of Agriculture, amounts to n total OF
Il, ,041 ,252 bushels, an average of 10 pa
bushels per acre, and is valued at $31, 266, =
707, or an average of IS cents per bushel in
the producers hands. 1t is considered the
largest and most valuable wheat crop ever
raised in the State. The land sown to wheat
was ., 49,, ,063 acres. The above statement
relates toswinter wheat only.
The Walnut Street Bank OF Cincinnati,
Messrs. Bussing & Co., proprietors, has
made an assignment. Liabilities, S 100, 900.
This is the bank that had stolen from it, by
a sneak-thief, recently, bills and bonds to
the amount, as now claimed, of over 5 10, =
900. Cashier Scanlan has left the city.
The body of Captain Secrest, the murder
ed mail contractor of the Indian Territory,
was found by party of soldiers about $50
miles southeast Of. yinita, and about 30
miles from the stage line. A large bullet
wound was i'm the head. There was no trace
of the three men who accompanied him, and
who are supposed TO have shared the same
fate.
The stage out from Santa Fe, n. NJ, on
the 18th, was stopped by three road agents,
90 miles from Las Vegas. The two passen-
gers, Ex-Governor Army of New Mexico and
J. III. Strahan of New York, were robbed,
and the three agents rode off on the stage
horses.
The st. Louis cigar makers are on a strike
for higher wages.
Rev. W. II. Tillinghast, Rector of Trim
ity Episcopal Church, of Detroit, Mich. 4,
who was camping out on Fox Island. at the
mouth of the Detroit River, was accidental
" shot and killed on the 18th by the careless
handling of a revolver by n young man
named Wright.
Henry NJ. Dixon, late Independent candi-
date for Sheriff of Yazoo County, Miss. 4,
was shot and fatally wounded, on the 10th,
u
James Barksdale, Democratic candidate for
County Clerk. The Associated Press report
of the affair Is as follows: ''DiNon, while
passing down the west side of Main Street,
was hailed by Barksdale from the east side,
who Mt the same time advanced to the
middle of the street, armed with a
double-barreled shotgun. Dixon halted
and Immediately placed his hand on his pis-
tol, drawing it. Barksdalc raised his gun
TO his shoulder. Dixon, on seeing this,
moved toward a stairway, when Barksdale
fired, four buck-shot taking effect in DiXon's
back. Dixon then fired several times at
Barksdale, without effect. Barksdale miss
ed his second shot. Dixon bled internally
and died. The difficulty, it is represented
by Barksdale's friends, was of personal
nature.n
James A. Barksdale, who killed Henry NJ.
Dixon at Yazoo City, Miss, was released
from custody on a 5 Ii, 900 bond.
The Ohio Republican campaign was OPEN
ed ON the 20th by large meetings i'm various
parts of the State. Judge Taft spoke at
Cleveland, Secretary Schurz at Cincinnati,
Secretary Sherman at Steubenville, and Hon.
Charles Foster at Akron.
origin, occurred at Memphis on the Goth.
Incendiarism has become frequent there
since Yellow Jack took possession of the city.
The Southern eXcursionists to Kansas
were pretty generally interviewed i'm st.
Louis on their return home. Nearly all eS-
pressed themselves well pleased with the
country they visited. As regards the pros
poets of colored emigrants to the State there
was considerable diversity of opinion, the
majority apparently taking the view that the
colored man who possessed some capital,
sufficient to stock a small farm, might dc
well, while those dependent entire.
ly upon daily labor would have
a pretty hard row to hoe. A number of the
colored members OF the party remained in
Kansas, but their places were all filed OF
the return train, one of the managers said
by some of the earlier colored immigrants
from the South, who were very glad OF Tho
opportunity to get back to their old homes
The Associated Press reporter at st. Loui'
sums up the various opinions as follows
"The weight of testimony is decidedly
against the emigration of poor negroes I,
Kansas"
The Central Branch of the Union Pacifi,
Railroad is completed to Gaylord, Smitl
County, Kansas, on the north fork of tn
Solomon River, p miles west of Cawke
City.
Mrs. Virginia Clark, wife of Prof. Clarl
of Berryville College, Carroll County, Ark.
was accidentally killed recently under mos
distressing circumstances. The Profess
| or and family and several student
had been" camping at Eurek
StaV.i for. tfttan haa
and recreation. The party were seated a
what was intended to be the final Dime
before breaking up camp, when, withOu
warning, a large tree, half burned i
two near the ground, was diseovere
TO be falling. All started up an
escaped except Mrs. Clark, who, having a
infant in her arms, was embarrassed in he
movements, and was caught and crushed b
the tree. With a mothers forethought
however, she held her babe at arms length
and il was not harmed. She died in half n
hour.
j. NJ. Cotton, Postmaster, Station AgeI
and general dealer at Williamstown on III
Kansas Pacific Railway, seven miles frol
Bismarck, was murdered in a most horrib
manner on the night Of the 20th, it is SUI
posed by tramp. An AK was the weapO
used, and his head was nearly severed frol
his body. Several suspected parties Wei
| arrested.
Bunk Axe, negro, was hanged at Au
tin, Texas, on the 22d. His crime was Il
commission Of a horrible assault upon
Young German girl.
4 saw-mill in SOnoma County, Cal, WI
carried off 10y tidal wave, and three INT
and one woman drowned in the ocean.