Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24
THE NEWS.

month from leaving st. Johns. All are
we'll.
Mr.. John King, Jr., has withdrawn
his resignation as receiver of the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad, and asks that
thorough examination be made into
his administration.
A call is issued for national conven-
ton of representatives of the agricultu-
raj, manufacturing and commercial
interests of the country, to be held in
the Cooper Institute, New York city,
on the 3D. of November.
Armed men surprised the jail at OAR
danelle, took out John Taylor and j.
L. Bruce, charged with murder, dragged
them through the streets, and hanged
them to the limb of tree. The plis-
oners made desperate struggle, and
died cursing the leaders of the mob.
DIR. Agnew in an interview said that
he did not regard the Presidents case
as by any means hopeless one, and
added that he thought the President
would receive much benefit from the
pleasant weather which may reasonably
be expected at Long Branch dnripg
this month and the next. +Dr. Agnew
stated emphatically that the President
never had an abscess on the lungs. 1t
was merely circumscribed infamma-
tory trouble in the nature of bronchial
pneumonia.
The new Claremont stock yards are
now completed, and the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company will hereafter
daliver all stock arriving at Baltimore
by that road at the new yards.
The entire business portion of the
town of Beaver, Utah, with the excep-
ton of the court house and co-opera-
tive store, was burned.
A white woman was outraged by q
negro near Orchard Hill, Ga The ne
gro has been arrested and identified.
Samuel Rooney, the murderer of John
Smith, was taken from Jail at Owings-
vile, KY, by masked men, and hanged.
General Ambrose Burnside, United
States Senator, of Rhode Island, died
at his home in that state, September ID,
from heart disease.
In consequence of the continued Ia
Dor riots at New Orleans, Acting Gov
ernor McEnery has placed the city I'M
der martial law.
Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's American colt
Iroquis won the st. Leger at Doncas-
ter. There was much enthusiasm
among the Americans present.
The compromise arranged by the New
Orleans Chamber of Commerce COM
mittee has been accepted by all parties,
and the labor truobels for the present
are at an end.
A duel was fought at Terrene, Miss,
between the Hon. Leland Leatherman,
Mayor of Arkansas City, and James
Bucker, prominent attorney of the
same city. Both combatants were
wounded at the first fire. Leatherman
received a slight flesh wound in the
arm. Bucker was hit on the left side,
and it is supposed his wound is fatal.
Complaint has been made from the
French government purchasers of Mary
land tobacco that the hogsheads do not
come up to the samples on which they
were bought.
A number of American capitalists
have authorized General Frisbie to APP
ply for charter for bank in the City
of Mexico, with branches throughout
the country.
Fifteen thousand dollars was sent
from New York to the mayor of Detroit
for the relief of the Michigan sufferers.
A mail route has been established
between West Point, Virginia, and Bal
timore, via Yorktown, service to begin
September Goth and expire December
81, 1881. The contract for carrying the
mail has been awarded to the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Richmond Company.
The dory Little Western, manned by
George FL. Thomas and Fred Norman,
arrived at Gloucester, Mass, having
completed a round trip from Gloucester
to London and back, She is thirteen
and a-half feet keel, two and one-half
in depth, eight in width, and is the
only dory that ever crossed the ocean
both ways.
A fire at Hunt, Holtzinger & Co.'s
picture frame mandatory, Cincinnati,
broke out in the part of the building
occupied by the Cincinnati Coffin Com
pany; Loss, 10000. This fire was the
third which has occurred on the prem
Uses within year.
Mrs. Susan May Bonaparte, widow
of the late Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte,
died at her residence, IS Park avenue.
in the sixty ninth year of her age.
Peace and order having been restored
in New Orleans, Governor McEnery has
withdrawn his proclamation declaring
the city under martial law.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
reports that the total values of the ex-
ports of domestic breadstuffs from the
United States during the month of Au-
gust, 1881, were 1915, 547, 521, and dur
ing August, 1880, $31, 734, $50; for the
two months ended August 81, 1881,
$45, 584. 228, and for the two months
ended August 81, 1880. $62, 1854, 537 for
the eight months ended August 81, 1881,
$157, 656, 205, and during the cores
ponding period in 1880, $1S5, 1871, 1902.
Dispatches received say snow has
been falling at Creston, Iowa, and in
the southern portions of Minnesota.
Ex-senator Christiancy has been chal-
lenged by DR.. Lugenball, brother of