Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-25
THE NEWS.

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Hospital, Washington.
Davis Knauer, of West Chester county, Pa,
has recently purchased tract of 600 acres OF
ore land in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
out on the surface, and by boring down some
twelve feet finds it to be solid mass.
A committee from the Virginia legislature
arrived in Baltimore and met committee
from the Maryland legislature with reference
to the question OF the Potomac and Pocomoke
oyster fisheries. The committees of the two
states will leave for Richmond, where the
matter will be fully discussed.
Tanks containing 100000 barrels of crude
oil, near Olean, N Y, were set on fire Feb
ruary IL, by sparks from locomotive, and at
last advices terrible fire was raging. Great
fears are entertained lest the burning oil may
reach Clean creek and destroy the railroad
bridges. The oil will be drawn from the
tanks as rapidly as possible by perforating
them with cannon balls.
Governor Cornell, of N. Y, has issued a
proclamation declaring the town of Green
wood, in Steuben county, to be in state OF
surrection, and commanding those who are
resisting the laws for the collection of taxes
to dispense.
An earthquake shock, five seconds in dura-
ton, was felt at Lake City. The citizens
we're awakened, and many thought powder
magazine near the town had exploded. The
shock was violently felt at Capital City"
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itappears. He was not found guilty on the
charge of embezzlement but of deceiving his
superior officer. General Grierson and other
officers have written to the President that
ripper is not bad person, and that he
ought to be given another trial.
The president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has advised Senator Allison. chair
man OF the Senate committee on appropria-
tons, that his company has no intention of
making any claim for compensation for cour-
tesies extended to the late President Garfield
and his family.
Baby insurance has taken the place of
graveyard insurance in Pennsylvania. The
head OF family at Pottsville recently insured
two of his children, the Oldest three wears
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died, and the father received So, the agree
ment being that he was to pay Ave cents q
week on the child, and if it died inside of ak
months he was to receive IS, and if it did not
die until the expiration of year he was to
get $l6. Its said that in many cases large
families OF children have been insured.
Inc bank Of Patrick Shannon, Terre Haute.
Ind, was robbed of $1,000 in currency. A
man engaged the cashier in conversation
whlie an accomplish passed behind the ooun-
Ter and secured the money. The former was
arrested, and gave his name as BENJAMIN
summon, of Chicago, but the man who took
the money escaped.
General Leary reports that from 1000 to
l,ooo British Indians are encamped on Mill
river, Montana, hunting buffalo, which of
right belong to our agency Indians, and re-
commends that they be driven back across
the frontier.
John f. Gould of New York, with memo
RAJ more than five thousand feet long, and
signed by merchants, manufacturers. mechan-
les, farmers, taxpayers and others residing
IN nearly every state in the Union, will be
presented to the Ways and Means Committee.
III asks that the tax on bank deposits and the
two-cent stamp on checks and drafts may be
polished.
Letters received in Washington from Liberia
announce the arrival there on the 18th instant
of the bark Monrovia, from New York. with
em1grants sent by the American Colonization
Society. They landed safe and well at Mon
rovia.
Rev. DR.. Henry Highland Garnet minister
resident and consul from the United States.
had arrived in the British mail steamship
Nubia, from Liverpool, and had been WARMLY
received.
The suspension of the ST. Louis commission
house OF George H. Small & Co. was announ-
ced. This firm has done large business with
the South in grain, provisions, etc., and has
bought pretty heavy lines of options in grain
for customers in that section.
Information was received at the NAVY
Department that two new cases of smallpox
appeared on board the flagship Tennessee,
now in Hampton Roads, Va. The patients
have been removed to the hospital and every
precaution taken to prevent spread of the
disease on the vessel.
The following failures were posted at the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange: Samuel Il.
Buck Co., Henry Hentz, of New York, in
commendam Henry Legendra & Son, and
Henry N Martin. All were cotton GO future "
brokers and buyers, who transacted business
through the future room of the New Or
leans Cotton Exchange.
Charles Derr, young man employed as
receiver and dispatcher of mails in the Phil
adelphia Postoffice, was arraigned for hearing
upon the charge of secreting, embezzlng and
destroying letters from tile United States
mails. The defendant was held in $4,000 70
a further hearing.
Stephen A. Bemis, of st. Louis, who has
been Of the Z" long" side of cotton and wheat
lately, failed to meet the demand for more
margins, and was forced to suspend. His la
bilities will not exceed $40, 900.
The wife of Governor Long, of Massachu-
sets, died at Boston. She had been an inva-
lid for a long time. Both branches of the
Massachusetts, legislature adopted resolutions
of sympathy.
A fire occurred at Robinson, Kansas, de-
stroying twelve business houses, two hotels,
the postoffice the Masonic and Odd Fellows,