Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-10
THE NEWS.

Asheepoo rivers, Rantowles creek, Eds
to river and the eastern and western
branches of the Cooper river, South Car
} olina.
The bill to incorporate the Cincin
natl and Georgia railway passed the
Georgia Senate without any amend.
ment, thereby becoming law. The
vote was almost unanimous.
A sickness resembling cholera NOR
bus in two Cincinnati families has been
traced to the use of oleomargarine, and
IN both cases the article had been sold
for good country butter.
Lewis r.. Redmond, the noted South
Carolina moonshiner, has been SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment in
the Albany penitentiary. His sentence
includes the payment Of fine of
$4,000.
A dispatch from Sierraville, CAL, saws
a fire originated in the store of Jolsen.
and the whole town was DESTROYED. The
losses will reach at least $500, 900.
The Richmond and Danville railroad
has purchased tue controlling interest
OF the Virginia and Midland railroad.
and it will be operated in the interest
of the former road.
There is some sickness at Panama
among the canal people. The canal
physicians have not yet acquired skill
in treating Isthmus fevers, and insist on
sending their sick to the foreign hospi-
tai, as they have none of their own.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Elmer reports reduction in star-route
and steam boat mail service during the
month of August, amounting to 1913, 1897,
and that the total amount of reductions
and discontinuances since March
amounts to $1,479,779.
In the elections held for President
of the State of Panama, DR.. Rafel M.
mez, it is said, was elected. He is now
President of the Republic, and is an in.
telligent, active and enlightened chief
magistrate.
Rains fell all over the Northwest and
in Southwestern Illinois, greatly bene.
fitting corn wherever the crop was not
wholly destroyed by the drouth.
The receipts and shipments of cotton
to and from st. Louis for the year are
as follows: Receipts, 1913, $50 bales
shipments, All, OFT bales.
The Farmers Friend Grain Drill
Mandatory, at Dayton, Ohio, was
damaged by fire to the extent of from
$50, 900 to $4,000.
There have been 1,634 miles of rail
road built in Texas during the past
year. Forty-o one new towns of COM
merclal Importance have sprung up
with populations ranging from 1000 to
5000 inhabitants.
Reduction of the public debt last
month $14, 900, 900 and few odd hun
dred thousands.
The deliveries of wheat at Chicago,
September l, exceeded anything in
amount ever known in the annals Of the
trade
The contemplated Oriole celebration
in Baltimore in October promises to
equal, in point of display, the sesqui-
centennial of October, 1880.
Charles Mcdonald Brown, son of
Senator Brown, of Georgia, died, aged
Il. He had long been an invalid.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, is again
suffering from the cancerous sore on his
tongue, which it was supposed had
been extirpated by. an operation per-
formed several weeks since. He has
gone to Philadelphia to consult DR..
Gross in relation to another operation.
The steamship agents at New York
are not in the least alarmed by the
threats of O'Donovan Rosa, that trav-
cling on vessels sailing the English flag
would not be safe after the first of Sep.
TENDER.
The failure is announced of Wolfe.
Mayer & Co., Philadelphia, manufac.
turers of wooden clothing. The assign
ment is made to Simon Bacharach. Liza
bllities are estimated at upwards of
$500, 900.
The bank clearings in Chicago were
the largest on record, namely, $780,
5OO,0 900. The largest previous clearance |
was $17, 900, 900, on May 2, last
The report of the Danville Tobacco
Association, of Virginia, for the month
OF August shows that 2, 1862, 3l1 pounds
OF tobacco We're sold for 1864, OBS IL
an average of $13.07 per 100 pounds.
I'oH CcbODeT L. IOOU, 10 DeDCemDer |
1, 1881, 27,7S9,S59 pounds of tobacco
were sold for So, S57, 24O 28-an average
of Stops per 100.
A special from Deadwood, Dakota.
says that marvellous gold discoveries
are reported from the Central Hills,
thirty miles from that city. A vein four
feet wide is said to contain more pre-.
cious metal than quartz. 1t is said that
it runs $4,000 to the ton in the foun-
dalton.
Henry Lawson, colored, was hanged
at Chattanooga, Tenn, for criminal
assault committed on the person of a
white girl in July.
The Department of Public Works of
Mexico, having investigated the Morelos
railroad disaster, finds the company, it's
chief engineer, and the government
engineer responsible for it's occurrence.
The officials at the Ohio penitentiary
have discovered that the convicts, in
order to purchace additional tobacco
and similar Injuries, have been manu-.
featuring counterfeit nickels. A con-
vict driver who had outsida prive1aoae