American citizen., 1880-08-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN alleged plot to blow up Cork Bar
racks was discovered on the 18th. Two bar
rels of gunpowder were found secreted Il
the railway tunnel directly beneath the bar
racks. The troops were Immediately pu
under arms, but no further development
were made.
DURING a riot between Catholics ant
Orangemen at Dungannon, Ireland, on Sun
day, the 10Th, the police first used buck
shot and then ball cartridges to disperse tn
crowd, who returned the fire with revolvers
Many persons were wounded. At Dow
Patrick the Catholics and Orangemen Tough
for several hours, a number ON both side
being severely wounded; and at Belfast
similar collision occurred, two deaths re
sulting.
i A WEDDING party at Painesville, O..
were poisoned at supper, evidently by some
deleterious substance being mixed with the
food. All who partook were seriously ill
some Of them nigh to death, but all will re.
cover.
TwENrY-oNE persons have been tried
by court-martial and convicted at Kief, Rus
sia, for political offenses. Two were sem
fenced to death, three to twenty years. i'm
| prisonment, and sixteen to hard labor for
terms varying from ten to fifteen years.
DURING a drunken carousal at the
house of John Kelleher, in Oakland, CAL,
the house was set on fire and two Of his chill
| dren were burned to death and third was
fatally injured. Mrs. Kelleher and another
woman, Mrs. King, were both badly burned,
and Kelleher was slightly scorched.
THE Yaeger Mill at st. Louis, the
largest Touring mill in the city, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th.
Total loss about $450, 900; insurance, $685.
| 600.
EUREKA, Nevada, has had another
disastrous fire, which swept over about the
same ground as the fire of year ago. A
large number Of business buildings and pri-
vate residences were destroyed. The losses
will aggregate nearly s., 10000
GENERAL BRYAN GRIMES, well
known citizen of North Carolina, was as
sassinated near his home in Pitt County by
some person unknown. He was shot dead
while driving along the road.
WHILE circus procession was taking
place at Winchester, Va, on the 10th, An
drew Drayton, the keeper Of the hyenas,
who was occupying the cage of those ami
mails, was set upon by them and almost lit
orally devoured before he could be rescued.
His injuries were thought to be fatal.
FROST appeared in Central New York
on the night Of August Is, and at one place
in Delaware County ice formed.
FLOODS swept down the glen of Glen
dore, County Donegal, ireland, flooding the
church at Commienon and drowning
eleven persons, who were carried away by
the rush of waters.
A MOVEMENT has been set on foot for
inducing immigration to West Tennessee.
A society has been organized at Memphis,
under the auspices Of the State Bureau of
Immigration.
LUKE BLACKBURN won the one mile
and half race at Long Branch, on the 18th,
In the unprecedented time Of 2:34.
) A CASE of twenty rifles, shipped from
Muford for Cork, was seized by the police.
A MAN named Marburger, q travelling
salesman for the tobacco house Of Abel
Brothers, Denver, was found dead in house
of bad repute in that city on the morning of
the 10Th. There had been a quarrel the pre-
vious night, in which the keeper of the
house, Carrie Smith, struck Marburger over
the head with bottle, and male friend of
hers then dubbed him with revolver. The
murdered man leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
AT Norfolk, Va, Mrs. Elizabeth Ben
son, mother of Chief Of Police Benson, who |
committed suicide in January last, on the |
10Th cut her throat and then jumped into .
of water. When found she was |
dead.
JOSHUA BALLARD, City Marshal of
Ennis, Texas, was shot and killed on the |
of the 10Th by s. B. Alexander,
whom he had arrested and locked up for |
being drunk and disorderly on the previous
night.
REUBEN .CARUTHERs, a colored cat
tie thief, was lynched near Brennan, Texas,
ON the night of the 18th.
Ex-GOv. HERsCHEL v. JOHNSON, of |
Georgia, died on the 10th, at his residence in
Jefferson County, aged 6S.
The bombardment of Candahar be-
gan on the 10Th. Cannonading was kept up
during the entire day on three sides of the
,fty, but without infiicting any serious
1amage.
Two Mexicans, named Gallegh and
Valdez, arrested at Albuquerque, N. M,
lew days ago on suspicion Of murder, have
made full confession. The name of the
man murdered was s. Daprez, and it ap-
peared he had been a sheep-owner in South
srn Colorado. They said they obtained
B, 200 In money, o check for $125, several
Post-ofice orders, two horses and a wagon,
md other effects. OF the money $406 was
'ound on their persons. Duprez was travel
ing south alone, and stopped in q tent over
night. One of the Mexicans shot him while
,sleep, while the other stood by with an AK
ready to afford assistance II necessary.
A PARTY of Russian emigrants, sixty
'even in number, the sole survivors of par
y of three hundred and thirty, which left
Russia I'm 1877 for Brazil, have arrived at
New York sick and destitute. They found
he South American climate unsuited to
hem, and after losing nearly all their funds
lecfded to leave the country where they had
experienced SO many hardships.
DIR. TURNER, Secretary of the Ma
ional Board Of Health, says that from Of
icial reports received from what are known
IS the yellow fever districts, he does not an
icipate that there will be any yellow fever
n this country this season in an epidemic
orm. There may be sporadic cases, but the
lisease would then be confined and would
lot spread. He said the most dangerous
part of the season is already over, and moth
ng that could indicate the breaking out Of a
yellow fever epidemic has been reported.
He attributes the freedom of Memphis from
he fever this year to her establishment of
sewerage and other sanitary precautions
against the engenderment of the disease.
The officers of the Board in the different
'ections are ready to act at moments no.
ice to the extent of the power conferred
Ipon them by law.
The Indian. Agent at Poplar River,
t., has abandoned his post in conse-