Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-19
THE NEWS.

IeVer Is sweeping away the canal laboreI5 al
Aspinwall Some of the canal officials have
died, and the lady superior Of the canal hos
pital. The death rate in population Of 6,000
is 100 month.
The national board of health has received
Official information confirming the reports of
the existence Of yellow fever at Brownsville,
Texas, and Matamoras, Mexico. Press dis
patches say that at Matamoras there were fif-
teen deaths Sunday and twelve on Monday up
to three P. NJ, August and Z.
Police Captain Williams, of New York, has
been instructed to obtain warrants from court
for the arrest Of John L. Sullivan and "Tug4
Wilson, who have been training for fhard
glove" fight. They will he bound over to keep
| the peace.
| General G.. X. Warren, whose death occur
| red at Newport, R. l., was one of the most ac-
complished officers in the United States army.
he graduated at the West Point Military Acad-
emy in 1850, and his high standing in his class
carried him into the engineer corps.
Congress adjourned sine die August 8. Lit.
tie was done in either house after session of
eight months.
Sister agnes uubert died at ST. Agnes' Hos
pital, near Baltimore, ON August 9th, after a
long illness. She was probably tile most
noted teacher Of vocal music connected with
the Catholic sisterhood in this country, and
possessed almost phenomenal voice.
Every wholesale grocer in Philadelphia has
been notified of the advance in the price of
matches of from twenty-five cents to 81 so per
gross, according to kind, and the jobbers and
dealers in matches have announced a propor-
tionate rise on their part. Notices are on
their way throughout the Union to the same
effect
On account Of the number of deaths from
iockjaw caused by the explosion of toy pis-
tolls, coroner's jury in New York has rec
commended the passage Of an ordinance pro-
hibiting their sale.
James II. Adams, clerk at the West End
Hotel, at Long Branch, shot himself fatally
in the head recently. Brooding over domestic
troubles had driven him wild.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Sandwich
Mass, have occasioned great alarm. Some
hfteen valuable farm houses are in the path
OF the fire, and their destruction was regarded
as certain at the last advices,
Professor Clifford, who has been examining
mines in Sonora, reports that he and his trav-
cling companion, Mr.. Walton, were attacked
| by hostile Apaches about thirty miles south
east of Ures and both were severely wounded.
! The Apaches make frequent forays from the
| Mazatisn mountains on the settlers in the
vicinity of Ures, and it is reported that forty
| five persons have been murdered in the past
| twelve days. In battle at Viego rancho four
herdsmen were killed, and the Apaches left
nine dead warriors on the field.
The Shawnee Agricultural Company Of
o. Dow Co., in the agricultural implement
business, at Springfield, Mo.
There has died at Old Point Comfort Hattie
Hamilton, the most notorious woman in New
Orleans. In the twenty-five years of her
| illicit business she accumulated about $780,
600, which she leaves to her business agent,
leading merchant Of New Orleans.
| An official return of the census of France
shows that the population of the country is
37,672,04s.
A special dispatch to the Boston Journal
| from Paris announces the publication of the
decree which allows commercial, educational
and financial associations authorized in tho
United States to have legal status in France
and free exercise Of their rights in all the
French courts.
| The funeral of General Warren took place
on August 18th, at Newport, from All Saints
Chapel, the Rev. Geo. J. Magill, of Trinity
Church, and the Rev. DIR. Cook, of New York,
officiating. There was no military display,
in compliance with General Warren's request
Twenty-Five new cases of yellow fever (all
Mexicans but one) have occurred at Browns
vile, Texas, since the last report. The
weather is warm and showery, and the ply
sicians regard it as unfavorable:
Extensive preparations are making in Phil
adelphia for the celebration in October next
of the bicentennial anniversary of the landing
Of William Penn.
The careless handling of candle in self
raising -four mandatory started a fire on
August 18th, which burned many buildings in
st. Sauveur, a suburb Of Quebec. There was
a great panic, a good deal of theft was COM
mitted, and several people were injured by
jumping from windows or by falling timbers.
The total loss is about $50, 900.
Twelve business houses at Grant City, Mo-,
have been destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000; insurance
about $4,000.
The courthouse OF Randolph county, Mo-,
at Huntsville has been burned to the ground.
| All of the official documents of the city of
Huntsville were destroyed, together with
many county records. The real estate records
we're saved. The building cost $3S. 600; in
sured for $4,000.
| The guests of the Hotel Bellevue, Long
Branch, N. j., stampeded recently because of
two cases of typhoid fever among their num-
| ber. The patients are N. W. Andrews,
brother-in-law of Cyrus W. Field, Jr., and
Mrs. Albert Levy, a relative of the Selig-
| mans.
! A car load of new corn from Texas was ro.
ceived at st. Louis and sold for s1.75 per
| aushe1.
colored man and white woman OF do,
| troit, Mich, who have been married some