Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-10-15

ceiyed from w. IL. BrOoks, OF Newport,
r. T., the announcement of the discov-
ery by him at Newport on the 4th of
October, 1881, at 2.45 o'clock A. M.
mean time, of comet in Leo, in ten
degrees west by north of Regulus.
Dunn, Wyman & Co., of the mercan-
tile agency, report the failures for the
week ending, October the 9Th, through
out the country to have been ITO, as
against 1OS last week, which is still
considerable above the average. The
geographical distribution of the failures
is as follows Eastern States, ID Wes-
tern, Al; Southern, II Middle lin.
GLIDING New York, 2S, and the Pacific
Coast States, IL.
The statement of the National Cotton
Exchange for September, issued in New
Orleans, shows that the amount of the
cotton crop of 1SSl-S2 that has appeared
in sight at the overland points of eros
sing and the seaports is 459, 769 bales, a
decrease of 1926 bales, as compared
with last year. The total rail shipments
overland from producers reached As, $50
bales, against 30, 1888 bales last year, of
which 25,328 bales went to Northern
mills, against 12,272 bales last year.
The congressional appropriations for
the Yorktown celebration are said to be
insufficient. Ninety postmasters are to
be appointed when the Senate meets in
extra session.
1t is believed that Secretary Window
will retire from the Treasury, and it is
rumored that ex-senator Conkling has
been offered the secretaryship. There
is also report that the position will
be rendered to ex-senator Boutwell,.
Engineers are making good progress
with the survey for the iron bridge
across the st. Lawrence river, in con-
nection with the Atlantic and North
western Railroad, at Montreal. The
bridge will be about two miles long,
and cost about $2,000,000
Cox, Stephens and Delaney, the Iron
Mountain train robbers, pleaded guilty
in the Hampstead Circuit Court, and
were sentenced to the penitentiary for
term of 70 years each. The robbery
occurred on the 22d day of September,
and the men were captured on the 2Sth.
General Prendergast has been APP
pointed governor of Cuba in place of
General Blanco.
During the eight months ended Sep
TENDER l, 10000 German emigrants
arrived, as against 65,934 last year
during the same period. There was
decrease of Irish from IS, 600 to SO, 900 !;
the English increased from 10000 to
$4,000, while there was slight decline
in the number of Scotch and Welsh.
A motion has been made in the
Spanish Senate demanding the con-
clusion of treaty of commerce between
Cuba and the United States upon the
basis of absolute freedom of commerce.
Passengers on the Southern Pacific
Railroad who have arrived at Santa Fe,
N. NJ, say that when the train was near
Wilcox, Arizona, they saw fight in
progress between citizens and Indians
The whites appeared to be retreating
The bodies of five telegraph repairers
were seen lying near the track.
The IN. o. Democrat says: "We
are constrained, by sense of duty to
the people of this state, to say that the
Governor of Louisiana Louis Alfred
Witt, is on his death-bed. He is
beyond the reach of human aid, and is
slowly but surely passing away. The
Governor has really been bying for
months, and nothing in his eventful
career has more strikingly illustrated
the true heroism of his character than
the superb courage with which he has
met the advances of DEATH"
In Washington, the United States
Trust Company of New York had regis
tered at the Treasury Department
1926, 000in four per cent. bonds in the
name of the company as trustees for
Mrs. Lucretia r. Garfield and the sur
yiving children of James A. Garfield,
deceased. The bonds will yield an
annual income of $1 ZOO, and cannot
be paid off by the government until
the year 1907,
The bodies of Andrew Ware and his
twelve-year old son, who were murdered
near Ellsworth, HANS, September 21st,
were found on the farm of l.. A. Rose.
Mrs. Rose has made statement that
her husband had grudge against Ware,
and that he shot him on the day men,
toned, and then killed the boy, to pre-
vent MIN IRON teSt1fylng.
The Cnpt0rs of the Missouri Train Rob-
bers Divide the Plumber.
The case of the men who robbed the
passenger train on the Iron Mountain
Railroad on the night of September
End, and who were captured September
2Sth-one in Texas and two in the
Indian nation-and brought to Wash
ington, assumed new and sensational
phase in the special term court held on
Friday, when each of the robbers
pleaded guilty to fourteen indictments,
naaAing the term of punishment seventy
years to each man. The pursuing party
that captured two of the robbers
Stephens and Delany-consisted of
four men named Huddlestone, Belvines,
Moore and Dollahade. When arrested
the robbers had about $4,000 in their
possession. Belvines objected, saying
the money ought to be returned to the
railway company, but he finally agreed
to it's being equally divided among the
four officers in the presence of Stephens
and Delany. In consideration of the