The National tribune., 1882-04-08
CURRENT MATTERS OF INTEREST.

A contract for municipal loan and for build
ing waterworks for Havana has been concluded
with Walter II. ellison, of New York, who signs
for himself and as attorney for James II. Lyles
and Daniel Runkle, also of New York. The
contract involves $9,200,000
Alexander C. Wingate of Lexington, KY,
was shot in the breast and killed on an Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad train, between Sparks
vills and Medora, Ind. His assassin was VIM.
NJ. Haines, who was craZed with drink, and
had no proyocation for the shooting. The as
sassin jumped from the train, (which was going
at the rate of forty miles an hour landed
safely, walked half mile to 4 creek, stripped
himself naked and jumped into the stream.
His dead body was found there the next morn
ing. His clothes were found hanging on a
bridge, and they contained $40 in cash, gold
watch, an express receipt for S4OO sent from FL
Paso, Texas, to New Salem, Ohio, and a quart
bottle of brandy half full.
About s., 300 has been contributed by business
mon of New York for the benefit of the suffer
ers from the southern floods.
It is proposed to transfer Sitting Bull and his
immediate followers from the custody Of the
military authorities at Fort Randall TO the
Yankton Agency, where they will be placed
under the charge of officers of the Interior
Department for instruction in the usages and
arts Of civilization, for which the old chief
claims to long.
The receipts Of wheat at all points, including
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, last
week amounted TO 652 900 bushels. During the
y Z ESJf L.. to,
$4,000 bushels, and in 1850 2,273,ooo. The
shipments from the same points foot up 926,00O
bushels. while in the corresponding week of last
wear they were 2,429000 bushels-a decrease OF
1,5a3, 900 bushels.
Alexander K Falconer has been committed
in default Of $1,000, in New York, for persist
emily annoying Miss Kate Louisa Hale with
love letters and presents during the last two
vears. The young lady is suffering from nerv-
GUS prostration on account of the excitement
bt,t her father stated that half bushel of let
ter5 had been received from Ealconcr, with
valentines, most Of them being sent back by
express He had spent $1,000 in sending her
away from home for year, to rid her of the
annsyance, which recommended as soon as she
returned home.
Della Graves, fifteen years Of age, the daugh-
ter sf farmer near Central Square, New York
wax reprimanded on Monday night for meeting
her lover, Clinton Lewis, youth of twenty
She was sent to bed, but she tore up her bed
clothes and twisted them into a rope, by which
she reached the ground. Then she walked tC
her lovers home, reused him up about mid
night. and said they must be married or she
would kill herself A carriage was procured, Z
minister found, the knot tied, and they reached
Lewis house lust about the time Farmer Graves
got up in the morning to find his daughter
gono. He has revoked the will which he had
made in her favor.
Governor Colquitt, Of Georgia, has pardoned
Kate Sothern, who was sentenced to be hung
! for the killing of Narcissa Cowart, her rival in
| the affections of her husband, the sentence
afterwards being commuted to ten years in q
convict camp.
The amount of grain now on hand in the
| country is estimated by the Department of Agri
culture To be much less than at this time last
year. The stock of wheat On hand from q
specified area embracing two-thirds of the area
of the great grain growing States, was on March
20 1882, 36000,000 bushels, against 64,00000C
bushels on hand March 20, 1881, a difference OF
forty-four per cent. OF corn, the surplus on
hand March 20, 1882, was estimated at 175, 1000.
900 bushels, against 3ss 0Oo, 900 bushels on March
20, 1851, difference of fifty five per cent.