Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-06
THE NEWS.


their numerous and important patents
against manufacturers and users of in
fringing patents.
Colonel b. Frank Moore, agent and
manager of the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany, was arrested in New York and
arraigned, charged with keeping lot
terry Office on Park Row.
DIR. Bemiss. of the National Board of
Health, says New Orleans is in excellent
sanitary condition, and no fear of yellow
fever is felt this year.
Somewhat to the surprise of a num-
Der of friends, Colonel John G. Burch,
secretary of the senate, died at his resi-
dence in Washington. His ailment was
organic disease of the heart. Deceased
had been sick ever since the adjourn
ment of the senate.
Secretary of the Treasury Window
addressed communications to the col
lectors of customs at Boston and New
York, from which ports, it is alleged,
the internal machines and combustibles
which recently arrived at Liverpool
were shipped.
A dispatch from Peoria, Ill, says that
the dynamite machines sent to Liver
pool were made in that city and shipped
to New York.
News has been received here from
Tiptonville, Tenn, to the effect tina at
mob of $50 masked men took Felix Wy
lie from the jail and hanged him to a
tree. He had outraged and murdered
a young lady.
A fire broke out in Mrs. Wilcox's
pharmacy, on Washington street, Catta-
raugus, N. Y, and swept both sides of
that, the main street of the town, de-
stroying seventeen of the principal bust
ness houses of the place, including two
drug stores, two hardware stores, gro
ceries, drygoods, &c. Loss, $4,000.
Miss Eva Jacobs, the pretty young
Jewess detected in Brooklyn at sneak
thieving, having plead guilty, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years. She appeared stunned when the
sentence was pronounced, and uttered
shrek after shrek, creating quite a
scene. She has been put to work in the
shoe shop. &
An unusual excitement is agitating
New York in consequence of torpedo
boat which it is alleged sails under
water and is supposed be used in mid
ocean to blow up English vessels. An
effort is being made to connect it with
the fenian troubles and England.
A special despatch to the Times from
Little Rock, Ark, announces the cap
ture, by United States Marshal Hough-
won't, of Thomas Andrews, called "King
of the Moonshiners," who has long be n
operating in Baxter county, Arkansas.
Two cases of genuine yellow fever
were reported at quarantine, New York,
from Cuba and Mexico.
Private crop reports received at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, from seventy of the ninety
nine counties in Iowa, indicate that the
wheat and corn will not average more
than two-thirds of crop as compared
with last year, the wheat especially be-
ing very poor
Advices received by the National
Board of Health from Havana report
that during the week ending July 23d
there were 81 deaths from yellow fever
and about 100 cases in the city.
The leaf tobabco market in Cincinnati
has been unusually excited. Sales have
been made of 2, 1872 hogsheads at an
average of $1155 per hundred pounds.
One hogshead of extra quality was sold
at $65 per hundred pounds.
Governor Churchill, of Arksansas,
says he will restore order in Perry county
it he has to call out the militia.
The Postmaster General has decided
to reduce the amount allowed for clerk
hire in postoffices where the present
allowance is in excess of the sum al
lowed by law. There are about $50
Offices in this class.
The planning mill and maching shops
OF Perkins & Brother were destroyed by
fire in Augusta, Ga. Loss $50, 600; in
surance so. 500.
A fire at Louisville destroyed Gath
right e. Looks saddle and harness fac
tory, a five.story structure with stone
front, on Main street. The building
was filled with valuable stock. Loss
$65,000; insurance $4,000. Allen
Smith & Co., commission merchants,
adjoining, were damaged to the extent
of $4,000.
A most disastrous fire visited White
hall, Muskegon county, Mich, sweep
ing almost the entire length of the main
business street. Nearly every place of
business is burned out. The loss is
roughly estimated at 100000; fair
amount of insurance.
General John Pope has issued an Or
der commanding Lieutenant Shoemaker
and company of men to report to
United States Agent Tufts at Fort Sill
for duty in the Choctaw Nation. The
men will be used to expel white in
truders. Considerable excitement has
been created by the order.
The ladies connected with the Silk
Culture Association of Philadelphia have
decided to accept the invitation of the
Atlanta International Cotton EXPOSE
ton, and make an exhibit of silk, silk
worms and cocoons there, as we'll as in
Philadelphi, in the fall.
The guage of the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroad, running from Memphis,
Tenn, to Grenada, Miss.-100 miles
was changed from five feet to four feet
eight and one half inches. The work
woc 1opa in ron bourc uitbout in tor