Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-28
THE NEWS.

the Chicago and Alton railroad, fell under
freight train, and caused q loss Of $4,000 to
the company. Six cars went down with the
bridge, and five others were detached before
reaching it.
| At meeting of the committee of common |
councils investigating the management OF the
almshouse of Philadelphia, Clement B. Lowe,
a druggist, testified that, as secretary of the
grand jury, he visited the almshouse in COM
pany with the grand jury. The paupers were
about to take dinner The grand jury found
that the bread was sour, and was told by Mr..
Snyder, who was conducting the grand jury,
that the bread was made up from lot of new
flour that they had just received. The baker
said that the flour was the last of an old lot.
colored pauper complained that they did
not get enough to eat, and were only able to
keep soul and body together. In the found
ling department they found the bread bad,
and the milk was not of the character that it
should have been. The children were shut
up in the house, instead CT being out to play
in the fresh air, and he was told that the
children had no hats to wear.
The postmaster at Wilmington, Ohio, writes
to the Postoffice Department that child died
at that place few days ago from what was
supposed at the time to be chichen-pox. The
funeral was largely attended, and as con-
sequence, there are over fifty cases of viru-
lent smallpox in the town.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, after
stating that in years past the Hudson River
, Railroad Company used to keep fagman at
the end of the cut in which the accident oc-
Cured, but that recently these sentinels were
! taken away, says POSSIBLY this may have
been done because Mr. Vanderbilt's policy in
cutting rates required that he should also
: cut expenses. When a railroad manager
Q undertakes to run long road cheaper than
= a shorter rival road can be run, he must do
a something to repair his losses, and the easiest
s thing to do is to dispense with employees
/ whose services are enotimperatvely necessary
for the conduct of the business. By keeping
IS flagmen at the 'cut for time, vanderbilts
y managers confessed that there was a chance
of an accident at that point When the men
were removed the company took for it's un
happy passengers the risk that an acciden
would not happen, and half dozen dead
Z, bodies are the result.
The track of the Mexican National railway
rs now completed across the state of Tamau
lipas, and is being laid at the rate of mile
day in the state of Nuevo Leon.
In the investigation of great frauds in tn
Philadelphia tax office, Tax Receiver Hunte
has recently found plain indications of par
ticular frauds in 1876 and 1877, but before h
concluded his search the books for thos
years disappeared and cannot now be found
The Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati
= passed resolutions upholding the principle 0
The differenial rates for which the Baltimor
and Ohio contends, and also resolution
requesting the representatives to the Nationa
rs Board of Trade and in Congress to favor ar
w preparations for deepening the harbor of Bal
Id timore, and for building the ship canal.
A fight between Mexican troops and Indian
recently occurred in Sonora, in which five
the troops were killed. The Indians finall
i. fed, with the troops in close pursuit.
The grain rates to New York were advance
nd at Chicago to basis of 15 cents by the Va
derbilt roads, and 20 cents by the Penns,
vania Railroad.
Ex-Judge Mckenzie, leading lawyer
Hampton, Ia, the man who sent Gener
Sherman's signal during the war-''Hold Il
- fort; we are coming" died at his home after
lingering illness.
In the New Jersey House the Senate res
utions in reference to the death of Preside
Garfield was taken up. That part of the
10 referring to Guiteau as sane man "
Dc stricken out, and the resolutions were passe
,ve Judge Barnum, of Chicago, created sc
ole sation in his charge to the grand jury by
In structing them to investigate thoroughly
h.t question of gambling, and to extend tn
queries to the worst gambling house of al
'i"A The Board of Trade. He also instructed tn
rye to take up the matter of jury packing, q
ne, make a lively overhauling thereof.
1sy The United States steamer Yantic, at Xii
to ston, Jamaica, has been ordered by telegra
to proceed to Aspinwall for the better prot
ton Of American interests at that place.
Secretary Frelinghuysen received tt
you graphic dispatch by cable from the Uni
lich States minister at Paris, in which he sta
hen that the Under Secretary of State thinks
~, the bill introduced in the French chamb
relative to the importation of pork will res
-'nu practically in the free admission of Ameri
TO salted meats.
not It is said that number of Philadelp
the capitalists have purchased the Red
onr Steamship vaderland, with the idea of m
-, ing an experiment in the transportation
petroleum in bulk. The result of exp
oeo' ment will be made public in July.
ac- W. @. Fitzsimmons & Co., proprietors
the the Peoples Bank, of Tecumseh, Mich, b
ble : made an assignment to e. B. Wood, of
/. ,s cumseh.
1t has transpired that one of the Jurors
noii the Guiteau trial purchased bundle OF
out gars at the National hotel cigar stand, slip
,ion, up stairs, into the room of the jurors, nj
low served by the bailiff, and had a converse
o~r, with his friend on the Jury, who said to
"I expect to see you next Saturday, and il
neu' the Jurors think as do about the case 1
erit- see you sooner"
Japen General Carr, who was placed under al
at Tuscon, Arizona, by order of the P
ltury dent, says he is ready for any kind of tri
of a investigation. Gen. Carr further says
ianu- the charges against him are disrespect,
the statements in complaints to higher aut