Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01

known author and politician, died on the
21st, aged 20.
The Teller Committee commenced an in.
vestigation at Charleston, on the 21st, of the
late general election in South Carolina.
| In Hyde Park, Penn, on the night of the
Goth, Mrs. Davis and her year-old child were
burned to death by the explosion of kero.
sene lamp.
The Judson Bank of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
closed its dors on the 22d.
Hon. John Cadwallader, Judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, died of typhoid
pneumonia on the Goth, in his I4th year. He
was son of the late Thos. Cadwallader, and
grandson Of Gen. Jno. Cadwallader, of Rev.
olutionary fame.
Wilkinson Call, who has just been elected
to the United States Senate from Florida to
succeed Mr.. Conover, is a resident Of jack
sonville, and about 30 years OF age. He is
of Whig antecedents, was Bell and Everett
Elector in 1856, and during the late I'M
pleasantness served I'm the Confederate
Army. He was once before elected to the
Senate, under the reconstruction policy of
President johnson, but failed of admission.
1t is stated that Bismarck has decided to
withdraw his Parliamentary discipline bill,
leaving the matter to the Reichstag.
Advices from Belgrade are 20 the effect
that Col. Goeta, italian member of the Ser
vian Boundary Commission, was robbed and
murdered by Turkish brigands near Plevna.
The Swiss Council Of State has asked for
Legislative appropriation of $1,000 francs
to relieve destitute workmen.
Alderman VIM. Clendennin, of Montreal,
an extensive iron-founder, has fed the coun-
try, leaving his debts and his family behind
him.
The French crisis has been averted by the
Government effecting a compromise with
the Left, thus securing a Ministry in accord
with the majority of the Legislature.
General Grant left Paris on the 22d on his
tour Of the East The party accompany
ing him consists Of Mrs. Grant, Col. Fred.
Grant, ex-Secretary Of the Navy Borie, DR..
Heating, and New York Herald corre-
spondent.
Edward Matthew Ward, the eminent En-
glish painter, is dead, at the age of 63. He
committed suicide.
At the conference of the International
Sanitary Commission at Vienna, at which
Germany, Austria and Hungary were rep
resented, stringent measures were adopted
to prevent the plague now prevalent in Rus
sia from spreading, All railway traffic be-
tween Warsaw and Vienna has been sus-
pended and the Commission resolved, in the
event of the spread of the epidemic, to en-
tirely close the frontier.
The Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of
the Grand Duke Michael, was married on
the oath to Prince Frederick of Mecklen-
burg -Schwerin, at the Winter Palace, st.
Petersburg, with great ceremony. The city
was Illuminated at night.
The news from South Africa is that the Zu-
lu King refuses all the British demands. The
King has assembled s, 900 men on the border.
The High Commissioner had placed all mat
ters connected with Zulu affairs in the hands
Of Gen. Chelmsford, but gave King City,
wayo until the 11th of January to make full
and unconditional submission.
A majority of the people of Venezuela
have risen in favor of Guseman Blanco.
Puerto Cabello is in the possession of the
revolutionists and the fort is in possession
of the Government. The war steamer Bo-
livia aided the fort, shelling the town and
destroying much property and many lives.
tits reported that England intends to def
nitely purchase Cyprus to avoid complica-
tions arising from the nominal continuance
of the sovereignty of the Sultan. One mill
lion pounds sterling are offered, which the
Sultan will probably accept.