Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-12
THE NEWS.

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The coinage executed at the Unitod States
Mint in Philadelphia, during the month of
July, aggregated 1,3l3,OOO pieces, valued at
sSO6,S5O. This amount was mado up OF $780,
c0o dollars, $4,000 five-cent pieces and 470, 900
cents.
Applications were received in New York
from North Carolina to sell oats from that
state in that market. This is another unpre-
cedented feature in tho grain trade. Every
thlng goes to show that the South will have
the largest crops of all kind OF grain ever
raised thero.
Hecker's flour mill, extending from Cherr,
toy Water street, New York, was burned Thor
we're 500 men in the old ten-story building ant
they had to rush for their lives. So rapid was
the spread of the flames that it was for time
feared that some had been cut off, but all es-
capped. Forty engines were at work, but
could not save the building Loss 81 ,250, ,0O0
Insurance 100000.
Captain Payne is at Wichita Kansas, an d
says he will enter Indian Territory at once
with colonsts.
The New York board of police have resolved
to prevent the glove fight on the 14th proximo
between Tug Wilson and John l.. Sullivan, in
Madison Square Garden.
| The sugar-refining firm of John Hi'gert's
ns, 141 South Front street, philadelphia,
Las failed. Charles NJ. Higcrt, who has con-
| Quoted the business under that firm name,
| cannot be found. 1t is impossible to tell how
] Mr.. Hilgert's liabilities compare with his as
| sets.
| 1t is reported from Matamoras, Mexico, that
there are over four hundred cases of yellow
fever in the city. The sanitary condition is
| frghtful.
| There were 100 cases of yellow fever at La
redo, Texas in one day. Six deaths were re-
ported.
The collision of two Lake Shore Road
freight trains west of South Bend, Indiara,
wrecked sixty cars which took fire and burned
up. party Of tramps were on the train, and
! those who escaped say seven of their number
were in the blazing wreck
On Limestone creek, near Maysville, Ky. +,
the cabin of negro family was washed away.
The man escaped, but his wife and mother
were washed into the Ohio river and drowned.
On Lawrence creek, two miles west of Mays
vile, the Boga family, consisting of man,
wife, five children and his mother, had their
house torn to atoms and the woman and chill
dren were drowned. Near Manchester, Ohio
the house of Richard Barnes was washed away
and his family drowned
Inc claims, 1ncIudfng mortgages and Judg-
| fa Tot
fners, Of Philadelphia, whose failure has been
announced, aggregate nearly half million
dollars. 1t is low alleged that Cha les M.
Hilgert obialned about 1926, SCI on forged
drafts and promissory notes.
1t is reported that yellow fever has broken
out at Austin, Texas, and that DR.. Swearinger,
State health officer, has gone there to invest-
gale the progress OF the disease. The death
rate at Matamoras is greater than at Havana
Twenty two cases were repor I'd Aug End, and
| seven deathe. One case occurred in New Or
leans The health board is taking active
measures to prevent tie spread the dis
ease.
The Indiana, Bloomington and Western
Railroad has been opened between Columbus,
Ohio and indianapolis, giving the Baltimore
and Ohio Company an important connection
with Central Illinois. Indiana and Ohio.
The number of immigrants for this veal
reaches the unparalleled number of ,003
| S4,7S6 arrived during July.
| A destructive thunder storm swept ovel
Milwaukee, Wis. The damage to property il
oil aalin t<I - f,r,.,
900. One man was killed by lightning, anC
an infant was drowned
W. A. T. Smith, colored clergyman, mad,
persistent applicationfor accommodation at tht
Adams House, Providence, R. l., and was re
fused and driven out because of his color
He has employed council to prosecute thu
landlord under the civil rights law.
Dennis Dineen, Canadian farmer, is abou
to bring suit against the Montreal Society fol
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals for hav.
ing imported English sparrows. He saws
these birds have eaten up thirty acres of his
barley, destroying his potatoes, and made sad
havoc with his early vegetables.
The Central Railroad freight house on Water
and Columbia streets, Albany, 200 by 400 feet
in dimensions, fell with crash, and is a total
wreck. There were $4,000 barrels of flour and
a large amount of other goods in the building,
which are damaged to a considerable extent.
Twelve freight cars were damaged.
The Chicago Railway Age has figures show
ing that the total construction of way line OF
railroad for seven months in the United States
has been more than 6,000 miles. Should the
proportion hold good during the remainder o.
the year the total mileage built for 1882 would
be nearly $4,000. but it is not likely to run
over 10000.
Southern News.
The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark, whose editor