Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-31
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION
DOMESTIC.
The TroubIe i'm Nor,b CoroI,na.

The Trouble in North Carolina.
! RALEIGH. December 30th-The Pasquo-
tank Rifles. of Elizabeth City, have been
ordered TO Plymouth by special steamer. and
have doubtless reached there The Edge
combe Guards have gone from Tarboro. The
military will be under the command of Lieu
| tenant Colonel Cotton, of the First Regiment
of State troops. The rioters are thought to
be from the immense single swamps of that
section. Governor Jarvis is at Greenville
There is no telegraph line to Plymouth.
NORFOLK tVa.), December 30th.-No fur
Their reports are received of violence from the
riot at Plymouth, n. c., but the town is still
in state Of excitement and apprehension.
Governor Jarvis is en- route thither, and has
telegraphed to tie proper officers Of that Sec
ton to repair to the town ard institute an
immediate and thorough investigation. The
services of the rifle company of Elizabeth
City has been rendered and accepted to aid
in suppressing the trouble This company
and the other military will arrive to-day
RALEIGH, December 30th.-A dispatch to
the Neus Observer says Troops have arrived
at Plymouth. The Sheriff yesterday, with
200 men, restored quiet. Five arrests were
made, and the parties sent to Edentown to
Jail. Other arrests will follow. The MUIR
derer of Better is at large. No further trou-
BILE is anticipated. The Governor has gone
to Plymouth.
Horrible Tragedy In Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK Ark J, December 3Oth-A
horrible murder has occurred at Bsntonville
that of Eson Bolin by his wife. She used
pistol She claims that her husband was o
horsethief, had killed two men, had threat
ened her life severa! times, and had drawn a
knife on her. She has four little children,
and took the youngest with her to all. After
being there two days she borrowed knife,
on some pretense, and cut her throat from ear
to ear, severing the jugular vein.
Cow boys Brought up with Round Turn.
DENVER (Col) ], December 30th.-The Re
puJlicaas Trinidad special says: This even
ing four cowboys attempted to run this town.
Marshal Kroger inteffered, and the cowboys
opened fire on him. He returned the fire,
fatally wounding cowboy named Brown and
killing his horse. One cowboy was arrested,
and the two others escaped The Marshal
was unhurt. The fight resulted from an old
feud and big drunk. The cowboys had
threatened Kroger's life,
SMALLPOX at Keekuk.
KEoKUK (Ia) December 30th Forty
cases Of smallpox have been discovered in
the Medical College, all being students. Its
said that a smallpox subject was received at
the college from Chicago, and that the
students, having worked this, were in
fected. The college has been partly quaran-
tined and isolated.
KEoKUK (Ia.), December 30tb.-The city
is considerably excited over the smallpox at
the Medical College. -Four of the five cases
which have been reported to the President of
the Board of Health the physicians and the
College Faculty declare to be genuine small
pox There is DO epidemic here, and all ru.
mons to that effect are false. The people
have been generally vacciuated and the Board
of Health is confident that the disease can be
easily controlled.
KEoKuK, December so h.-It is impossible
to learn the facts in the matter relative to
the origin of the smallpox in this city The
faculty of the College refuse to give any iu-
formation whatever, the other source of in
formation being the students.
KEoKUk, December S0sh.-This afternoon
one of the students of the Medical College,
named Hubermus, and who resides in New
York, died of smallpox in Esti's building, ard
will be inferred in the potter's field at mid
night. The remaining cases present more
favorable aspect this evening.
smallpox In Illinois.
| SPRINGFIELD, December 30th--Dr. Rauch,
Secretary of the State Board of Health, is
informed that there is smallpox in thirty
seven places in Illinois, although in about
two-thirds of them it is under control.
Smallpox at Jersey City.
JERSEY CITY, December 30sh.-Oue hun
bred and seventy.six cases Of small pox were
reported here during December. There were
two new cases to-day.
The Smallpox Epidemic.
NEW YORK, December 3Oth.-Five cases
of small. pox were reported here to day.
BUFFALO, December 30lh.-Fifteen cases
of smallpox were reported here to-day, and
the disase is still spreading.
Railroad Accidents.
PHILADELPHIA, December 30tb.--At Chris
tians, On the Pennsylvania road, this morn
ing, freight train parted, and following the
train ran into the rear portion, causing gen.
eral snash-up. Soon after there came
another freight train along and ran into the
wreck when the whole mass took fire. Two
men were burned to death and two or three
were badly injured-one beyond recovery.
Another man is missing, end is supposed to
| be somewhere 10 the wreck. The authorities
sent to Lancaster for engines.
ST. LOUIS, December 30.h.-A caboose
was ditched near Newburn, H., last night,
on the st. Louis, Jerseyville and Springfield
Railroad. John Beerharry, alias Kelly. was
killed and three persons seriously and others
slightly injured.
The Ice Question at Chicago.
| CHICAGO, December Saskatchewan there
has been no ice made this winter by any Chi
cago firms, the ice dealers say they are not
alarmed, as two winter months yet remain,
and the chances are good for harvesting fine
crop yet. In case these hopes should prove
fallacious, however, they acknowledge that
they are in a very bad shape-worse than
ever before. One company at the Washing
ton has an immense surplus, but would not
l h. 70 f,,p if 10 %bo,,
continues mild.
A PalpabIe swindle.
YANKToN, December 30sh.-Last winter
the county of Douglas was organized in
southern Dakota through the grossest per-
jury. 1t has only about forty voters, and the
total value of its taxable property will not
exceed So 600 or $4,000; yet the banking
firm of Jesup Patton & Co., of New York,
talegraphed yesterday that 100000 in
! Douglas county bonds are on the market
there. They were informed that the county
had neither school-house nor an authorized
school district. The securities named are
| absolutely worthless, as the entire organiza-
ton of the county is Illegal. Chas. f. Mccoy,
Clerk of the District Court, and candidate
for the Marshalship of this Territory, has
been removed because OF certain suspicious
against him in this connection. He is a
| prominent politician of Bon Homme county.
That Confederate Treasure.
! WASHINGTON, December 30th,-Judge T.
| K. Reagan, member from Texas. and the
last Treasurer of the Confederate States
denies the story that jefferson Davis, in his
| fight from Richmond, took away large
quantity of gold belonging to the Confedsracy.
Judge Reagan, who was of the party, says
1.-The funds consisted Of s600,000 in new
| Confederate bonds, $50 900 in gold coin and
bullion, $50, 900 in silver coin, and $50, 600 in
silver bullion-making q total amount of
S157, 000, exclusive of the paper, which was
worth nothing TO anybody. The coin was
subsequently distributed among the soldiers at
Charlotte, S. c., and the paper money was
burned. Reagan said Davis got rome of the
money that even his worst enemies had
never accused him of dishonesty.
Steamer Destroyed by Fire.
MONROE LA J, December 30sh. = The
steamer Rosa b., with about 500 bales of
cotton, was totally destroyed by fire to-day
in Bayou D'Arabourne, FIVE miles from Nor.
raj. Ths boat was valued st So, 600 |; insured
| for Sc. 600. The cook was drowned.
Probably Face Prejudice.
BALTIMORE, December 30th-The standing
committee of the Episcopal Church of Mary
land declined to recommend for ordination C.