Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-02
THE NEWS.

Hon. G. A. Tucker, an Englishman from
New South Wales, now at Salt Lake City, pub
fishes letter giving an account of visit to
the Mormon insane asylum, in which he claims
that patients are kept in confinement who are
perfectly sane and that the management ia
characterized by shocking neglect and cruelty.
The yellow fever epidemic at Brownsville,
Tex, is becoming alarming. Fifty new
cases are reported daily.
The Adirondack Hotel, at Keenesville, N.
Y, the Nolette House and thirty other build.
ings, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The
acuse, N. Y, was also burned yesterday, the
loss being estimated at 100000. An entire
block was burned at Plymouth, IN. c., the ag-
gregate loss being $4,000.
The roof of the Erie Railway elevator, at
Buffalo, N. Y, was blown off by an explosion,
the cause of which is unknown. The building
was burned to the ground. The engineer
John Bonnar, and John Kemp and Henry Lee
are supposed to have been burned to death.
Timothy Driscoll had his skull smashed in and
his right leg broken and will die. The loss is
probably over s250,O0o.
The total population of Delaware is LAG, 6Os,
of which &c, 44S are colored. The voting pop
ulaton is 81, 447 native, ASS foreign, and 1906
colored.
The total population of Pennsylvania is
4,2S2,S91, of which s5,S75 are colored. The
voting population is 1917, 592 native, 272, $50
foreign and % S92 colored
The total population of Virginia is 1,512, $685.
of which 631, 7O7 are colored. The voting pop
ulation is 1927 native, 1871 foreign and
12S,257 colored.
The total population of West Virginia is
61S, 457, OF which IS, 92O are coIored. The
voting population is 1913, $50 native, 9,2Os for
eign and 1884 colored.
Henry J. Hall, paying-teller Of the Rhode
Island Hospital Trust Company, at Providence.
r. l., has confessed that since 1875 he has
embezzled $21, 100.
Among the passengers who arrived in New
York in the steamer Labrador is Mr.. F. Lopez
Netto the new Brazilian minister to this coun-
try, who is on his way to assume the duties OF
his position at Washington.
The Iron Mountain Touring mill and eleva
tor at st. Louis, owned and operated by Tied
emann & Co., has been burned, together with
about 5000 bushels Of wheat and 1000 barrels
of flour. The loss is estimated at $125,000.
The fire is supposed to have been caused by a
stroke of lightning, which was followed by an
explosion of flour dust.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has purchased all of A. T. Stewards horses and
wagons for their express business in New
York.
The iron steamer Chattahoochee, built for
the Ocean Steamship Company, Savannah, Ga,
was launched at Chester, Pa, recently. The
vessel is 315 feet long, 40 feet beam, 25 feet
hold, and over 5000 tons burden. She will be
fitted with separate frst-class accommodations
for white and colored passengers.
Thomas Atkinson, who lives three miles
from Denton, Caroline county, Nd, shot VIM.
Ringgold, the ball entering about the middle
of the breast, but glancing to the right. Az
kinson is twenty-one years of age His father,
DR.. E. e. Atkinson, holds an appointment in
the custom house in Baltimore as assistant
weigher. Ringgold is the latters tenant on a
farm.
The evaporator of M. H. Davis & Son, al
Milford, Delaware, was burned. The same
establishment has been burned out twice be-
fore within the past ten years. About one
hundred persons have been thrown out OF
employment by the fire.