Daily Republican., 1880-07-23

Records OF Yesterdays doinEa, I'm.
claaiDg incidents. accidents,
Murders: :Crimes and Outxages.

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Murders. .:orimes and Outrages.
In Memphis, on Wednesday might
the parents Of Annie Hardy l5-year.
old colored girl, on returning from
church, found her covered with wounds
which looked as though they had been
inflicted with a pickaxe. The girl,
who had been sick for several days,
died yesterday Of her injuries. There
Is no clue to the murderer.
A convict named Vanderhide, who
escaped from the penitsntiary, al
Frankfort, KY, on Tuesday, assaulted
and murdered a thirteen year old girl,
near Brownsboro, on Wednesday.
After killing her, he threw her body
into a ravine, and covered 1t with
stones. 1t was found by the aid Of
dog, and the murderer was arrested.
John Houston, colored, charged with
attempting to assault little girl near
shelbyville, Tenn, and captured by
the girls father, was taken from the
latter's house, and lynched by a mask
cd mob on Wednesday night. Houston
was q bad character, and had been in
psnitentiary.
The murdered body of James Woods
was found near Tamaqus, Pa, yester'
day morning. William Orr, suspected
of the murder, has been arrested
Woods had interfsred to save Orr'e
wife from a beating by her brutal
husband.
John Turner. son OF the Sheriff si
Utah City, Utah, was found murdered
near Echo City yesterday. A tramp
named Welcome, who had been arrest.
ed by the Sheriff for horse stealing and
threatened to be revenged, is suspected
Of the crime.
General J. B. Weaver, the Greenbaok
candidate for President, addressed q
large meeting in Montgomery, Ala,
last night, in denunciation Of the Ma
tional banks and the two great politi-
cal parties.
The National Board Of Health is ad.
vised that there were IA deaths from
yellow fever in Havana during the
week ending July IA, and at this date
there were probably 200 cases Of the
fever in this city and Its suburbs.
The business portion Of Gibsonville,
in Sierra county, CAL, was burned on
Thursday. Loss, $50, Part Of the
old Walsh factory, in Newark, N. j.,
was barned on Wednesday, night
Loss, 100000.
The crops in Lunenburg and Bruns-
wick counties, Va, are reported to be
very promising, especially the corn,
which is "the finest seen so early in
the season for fifty years back. !"
A decided" earthquake shock
Ottawa, Ont, about two O'Clock yester-
day morning. The motion was appa-
rently from west to east, and was &C.
by loud rumbling noise.
The members Of the Grand Army Bn-
at Gettysburg spent yester-
day, regardless Of a drying rain, in
taking a last look at the battle. field.
The encampment will break up TO-
day.
George Bennett, the murderer OF Sem
ator Brown, in Toronto, is to be hanged
Today. He writes great deal, and is
said to be engaged upon an autobio-
yraphy.
C. B. Simonton was reneMinated for
in Congress yesterday,
by the Democratic Convention of the
Ninth District Of Tennessee.
A telegram from Little Rock says
hat city has defaulted in the payment
If about &c. 900 interest on its bonded
lebt due this month.
General H. s. Huidekoper, formerly |
VI Mesdville, Pa, was yesterday ap-
,ointed Postmaster Of Philadelphia, by
President Hayes.
A continuous rain at Petersburg,
7s., yesterday, replenished the water
upply Of that city, which had become
cry low.
The complete census OF Boston gives
hat city a population Of 1863, 1856, an
acrease Of 77,066 during the last ten
ears.
A brakeman, named Mccullough,
as fatally injured while coupling
hrs at Elizabethport N. j., yeaterday.