Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-20
THE NEWS.

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mortgage on the stereotype plates
pressed for payment, and that the firm
made an assignment for the protection
of the other creditors.
At regular meeting of the Yves tern
Nail Association at Pittsburg, the card
rate was advanced from 49, to SO,
subject to the usual rates and discounts.
General Maxillo Jerez, Nicarauguan
Minister to the United States, died sud
denly at his residence at Washington,
d. c., August IL.
General Hancock has refused all in
vitations to public dinners since the
second of July, when the President was
shot, on the ground that it would not be
proper, while the President, his ex-
otiicio COMMANDMENT chief, is lowering
between life and death.
Mrs. Millard Fillmore, widow of the
late ex-President Fillmore, died at her
residence at Buffalo, N. Y, aged seven
ty-one years.
The Parry House, at Beach Haven
New Jersey, was destroyed by fire.
There were two hundred and fifty guests
i'll the house, who barely escaped with
their lives, but some managed to snatch
parts of thebed clothing, which served
to some extent for covering.
Negotiations are pending for the es-
tablishment of iron and steel works.
and, in all probability, other manufac-
turing enterprises, at Curtis Creek,
near Baltimore. New York, Baltimore
and Cincinnati capitalists are interested
An order has been made by the Sec
rotary of the Interior that about 2, O0O,-
600 acres of public lands located in the
Duluth (Minn.) district shall be sold
at public sale. Proclamation to this
effect will probably be issued by the
President as soon as he is able to trans
act business.
The Cole-Seney Railroad charter
passed the Georgia House of Represen-
tatives by vote of 1874 to 25. The
majority in the Senate will be as large
In proportion.
At special meeting of the general
passenger and ticket agents, held at
Chicago, new rates were made, and an
agreement signed to maintain them.
A vein of silver two feet wide has
been discovered at Moretown, vt. The
ore is said to assay IS, 900 per ton.
The funeral of the late General Rob-
ert Patterson took place at Philadelphia,
and was attended by very large as
semblage of relatives, friends and ac-
quaintances of the deceased.
Maud S, at Rochester, N. Y, made
the mile in 2:104, the fastest time on
record.
Two squaws were caught carrying
ammunition and guns into Sitting Bulls
camp. He undoubtedly means mis-
chief, and, if he says the word, many
young braves at the agency will follow
him. The Indians are Independent, and
trouble may be expected at any moment
unless more troops are sent.
1t is useless to disguise the fact that
the President is in critical condition.
So many drafts have been made on his
strength that he-is naturally very weak,
and it is said he is losing heart, although
his mind is clear at all times, and has
been so since the day he was wounded.
If he gains in strength, it is SO slowly
as to be imperceptible, and it is fast be-
coming evident that unless he soon be-
gins to mend, there will be good ground
for serious apprehension. Certain it is
that the fact that his pulse and temper
allure remain abnormally high for so
ong period is by no means favorable
Indication.
1t is reported that during the recent
canvass in North Carolina, Senator Vance
asked one of his sons how he was going
to vote. The young man answered: "In
favor of the wet ticket" proceed, my
son." said old zeb, sit has made You
what you are"
A sad story is told of little boy who
starved to death in Pittsburg because of
throat affection. He existed four
weeks without eating or drinking, suf-
fering terribly. Just before he died he
asked his mother if he would get any
dinner in Heaven.
A report reached Montreal that a hor-
rible outrage and murder had been per-
petrated across the line in Clinton
county, New York, by six men, who as
saulted three young girls and then
hanged them. Two of the victims are
said to be dead, and the third is just
alive.
While the Royal Mail Company's
Steamer Nile was at sea. on her passage
from Southampton to Barbados, her
Goals were discovered to be ON fire.
Among the passengers baggage car
tridges were found. The vessel had
very narrow escape and a considerable
portion of the cargo was damaged
by water used in extinguishing the
fire.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue re-
ceived advices from Columbia, S. c.,
that the governor had offered reward
of 5000 for the arrest of the murderer of
Deputy Collector Il. l.. Brayton.
The will of General Patterson was
filed in the Office of the PHILADELPHIA
Register of Wills. His entire estate,
amounting to about 100000, is De-
queathed to his family, there being no
public requests.
A volunteer military company, to be
composed exclusively of Irish citizens,
is being successfully formed in Norfolk.