Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

destruction to property, a number of steam
ers and other craft being sunk or badly dam
aged.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
A number of Eastern mills are now run.
ming on half-time, on account of the Low
prices of manufactured goods.
The Legislatures of Maine, New York anC
Pennsylvania met on the 7th.
The Connecticut Legislature met on the
| 9th.
Benjamin Hunter was hanged at Camden
n. j., on the 10th, for the murder Of John M
Armstrong, in January last. Hunter was a
| former business associate of Armstrong and
had policies Of insurance on his life amount
ing to $4,000. The evidence in the case to-
gether with Hunters own admissions, left
| no room for doubt that the murder was
committed in order that he might realize
upon the policies.
Capt. Bogardus recently accomplished the
unparalleled feat, at Gilmore's Garden, New
York, Of breaking with a rifle 5000 glass
balls in 6,013 shots. He broke $3.50 balls
without a miss.
The United States sloop Of war Richmond,
which is to take Gen. Grant and suit on
on the 11th for Gibraltar.
Thomas ID. Conyngham, whose forgeries
on the Second National Bank at Wilkes
barre, Pa, lin 1876, amounting to about $780,
900, has been captured in Rio Janeiro. The
Brazilian Government has signifed its will
ingness to surrender him to justice.
Francis Bennett, for many years Treasurer
of Gloucester, Mass, confesses to defalca-
tion of s., 600.
The tenement house and beer-saloon Of
John Odendorfer, Jamaica Plain District,
near Boston, burned on the night of the 11th.
Mrs. Odendorfer and son, 10 years Of age,
perished in the flames.
Mime. Anderson, the plucky Englishwom-
an, on the 18th completed the difficult task
Of walking 400 quarter miles in as many
quarter hours consecutively. The feat was
performed in public hall in Brooklyn, n.
Y, and so great was the enthusiasm mani
tested by the public towards the latter part
of her walk that the hall was crowded night
and day. She begun her walk on Dec. 16,
and, although greatly exhausted at the close,
could undoubtedly have somewhat prolong-
ed her exertions.
Florida experienced a very palpable earth
quake shock on the night of the 18th.
FOREIGN
Princess Caroline, wife of Prince Henry Of
Hesse, is dead.
A recent dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that ex-Gov. Bravo, who headed the
rising in Colima and Michoacan, has been
killed with IA of his followers.
Michael Farrell was hanged at Quebec on
the 10th, for the murder of Francis Conway
in August last.
The new French Cable Company proposes
to lay two cables, one from Brsst to Cape
Cod and the other from Lands End to Nova
Scotia, both by way of Saint Pierre.
Great excitement has been caused in Ber-
lin by the publication Of the outlines of a
bill, emanating from Bismarck, for disciplin-
ing the members Of the Reichstag. The bill
places the power Of punishment in the hands
Of committee of two Vice-Presidents and
ten members, to meet at the order Of the
President of the House or on motion of
twenty members. The penalties provided
for unruly members are-1. To receive pub.
lie reproof before the assembled House.
3. To make an apology before the assem-
bled House. 3. To be excluded from the
Reichstag for a fixed period. Should
this exclusion extend to the entire term
of the session of the Legislature, the mem-
bers so punished may also be liable to lose
the right Of being elected to the Reichstag;
and further, an independent motion in favor
Of deprivin2 the Deputy Of his right of elec-
tion may be brought forward in the House.
The reproduction of a speech, or the re-
marks which called it forth, in stenograph-
ic report, or any other publication Of them
in the press, may be prohibited, the contra
vention of the prohibition to be punishable
with imprisonment Of from three weeks to
three months.
News from the Anglo Indian army of in
vasion is that Gen. Stewart has occupied
Candahar without opposition, which is said
to be the most important advantage yet
gained. 1t is rumored that Yakoob Khan is
inclined to make friendly terms with the
British, and negotiations for peace are al
ready in progress. There is no longer any
doubt that the Ameer has entered Russian
territory and is making his way to St.Peters-
burg.
The yellow fever has reappeared at Rio
Janeiro and several deaths have occurred.
The library of the Birmingham and Mid
land Institute at Birmingham, England, con-
tanning $1,000 volumes, burned on the 18th.
1t contained the most complete Shaks-
pearean collection in the world, numbering
5000 volumes.
Prince Henry of the Netherlands, brother
of King William, died on the 18th, aged 80.
GENERAL.
The King Of Holland and the Princess EN-
ma OF Waldeck-Pyrmont were married on
the 7th. The royal bridegroom is in the 62d
year of his age; the bride has Just turned 20.
The King is IA years older than his father-in-
law, and has a son 10 years older than his
new wife. The wedding was celebrated at
Arolsen, the residence of the brides father,
and was quite a brilliant affair.
1t is again reported that Sitting-Bull and
his band are anxious to make peace with
the United States authorities and return to
their old quarters.
The Pope's encyclical, brief abstract Of
which is telegraphed from Rome, de-
nounces Socialism, Communism and Nihil-
ism as initiating openly against the civil
state, rupturing the matrimonial tie, ig-
noring the rights of properly, claiming
every thing, however legally inherited or
honestly acquired, and attempting even the
lives of kings. The equality desired by
these sects is declared contrary to Scrip
lures. There are distinctions between
angels in heaven, Jortioi must
there be distinctions between men upon
earth. Poverty, Of which Socialism is i'm