The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-08-08

Judge" Curtis the senior counsel and
boss fraud IN the Buiord trial, got on a
spree At Columbus, Ohio. cut little negro
boy and jumped his bail bond.-lC.-J.
In Louisville last week, John ". Nor
ton, proprietor Of the Faro Bank At "a
Fihh Street, was shot and killed by Fred
Rhoman, drunken cigar maker No
cause for the dee'l l. assigned Rhcmsn
was captured and put In Jail; and A. he
has no money, viii probably hang.
The fact has been developed in Phila-
delphia, that the clerks in the Water De-
partment have been quietly stealing the
public cash FOR twelve years, and they
have actually baeged over fl,O0O,O00.
These thieves have lived extravagantly, and
have sported diamond breastpins but no
body seems 10 have suspected any wrong
until rccently.-lC.-J.
The Republican Campaign Committee
at Washington sends out every day twenty
five mail.bags Of speeches directed against
Mr.. jefferson Davis and the Confederate
Brigsdiers." Speeches on national g.
nance" they have no use for. The object
Of the committee is 10 make Republican
voters swallow the romance Of an APP
preaching southern rebellion. "-lC.J.
The wreck Of the steamer "Bro,her Jon
athan." which foundered of Point 81.
George, near Crescent City, in July, 1885,
has been discovered, and an expedition Il
being fitted out for the recovery Of the
81 ,OOO,O 900 in Treasury notes and bullion
which was in her safe. The treasure be
longed to the government, whose claim to
hold lapsed in ten days after the loss
SAN FRANcIsoo. Aug. GA Tucson dis
patch gives further advices concerning the
recent murder Of the Shellenback brothers
in the Santa Rita Mountains. The muir
derers were renegade Apaches. half dor
en- in number. They fired on the party
IRON ambush, the brothers falling At the
first fire. Mr.. Merchants horse baked
and saved him. Troops from Camp Hau-
chuca are on the trail.
On Thursday morning, 3lst ult., VIM.
Barnett, Moses Barnett and John Terrell,
life prisoners, and James Martin and Jos.
Lambert, sentenced for Eve years, succeed
ed in escaping from the Penitentiary; but
Moses Barnet, Martin and Lambert were
soon captured. The Others are still at
large. The guards fred fifteen or twenty
shots At the prisoners, two Of which se-
verely wounded Nose Barnett. The miss
ing ones are said to be wounded also. They
were all armed with dangerOus-looking
knives, evidently made BY them while In
prison. II viii be remembered that Fer
rell was sent from this county for the kill
ing OF Sutton.
The Zulu war is INV reported TO be At
an end, and the British government Is now
reckoning the expense. There il a remote
recollection that the war was begun for
the benefit Of the British honor; bat the
insult, whatever il waa, made 40 slight an
impression on the world that nobody takes
any account Of il now, and every body
looks upon the fracas from the dollars and
cents standpoint. The House Of Commons
has been informed that the government
needs SIS, 100000 more for South African
expenses, making the whole amount s22,-
SOC, 900, and leaving a deficit in the budg-
ct of nearly s6,OOO,OOO. The heavy ex-
pense and the death Of the Prince Imperi-
al will he the historic events Of the war;
fCin. Enc.