Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-04
THE NEWS.

On the 18Th of December last Thomas T.
Hopkins, prominent citizen of Phoenix,
Arizona, addressed letter to Gen. o. B.
Wilcox, U. s. A., stating that he had it from
various reliable sources that the Mormons
were melting the Piute and Navajo Indians OF
Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. to war, and
were furnishing them with whiskey and arms
and ammunition. Indications, he said
pointed to a concentration of the hostile forces
at some point in New Moxico early in the
spring. Scouts confirm this report Genera
| Wilcox forwarded the papers to the War Do
partment, whence they were referred to the
Secretary of the Interior. The latter has di-
reeted Commissioner Price, of the Indian
Bureau, to notify Indian agents and instruct
within their jurisdiction.
Guiteau, the convicted murderer of James
A. Garfield, is out with another address 'To
the American Public" in which he abuses the
jury, asserts the belief that the court in banc
will see him right, and makes an appeal for
friends to employ lawyers to aid him. The
jurors say that almost from the first they
believed Guiteau perfectly sane, and that
they were confirmed in their belief after the
speech of Mr.. Davidge for the prosecution.
Dispatches received from different points
throughout the country show that the verdict
in the Guiteau case is heartily approved on
all sides. At Madison, Ind, fifty guns were
fred in honor of the jury.
The postoffce department has been in
formed that the postmaster at Gratz, Pa, has
contracted the smallpox, and the sureties
have been directed to remove the Office and
its effects to safe place.
Charles Scott's Keystone Wheel, Spoke and
Hub Works, Nos. 174 and 17S Canal street,
Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire last
night. The upper floors were occupied by NJ.
L. Harmed, as a manufactory of fringes and
| upholsterers' trimmings. The loss is esti-
mated at $780, 900. Scott's insurance amounts
to s45,000, Harned's insurance is unknown.
The steamer Colon, from Aspinwall, at New
York She brings the following from Panama,
under date of the 18th General Lynch left
Lima on the I'd instant with o formidable ex-
pedition against the Peruvian chieftain
1 NdOCAoo. LhC ldtlCl . lUICcb WeT0 bpe6ully
| dispersed. The Chilians were well received
| by the people along the line of march, who
| hailed them as deligerers from the terrible
rule of the montoneros. On the night o.
January 4th q second expedition started fol
| the interior of Peru, but on more southerly
route than that taken by Gen. Lynch. 1t was
| to join Gen. Lynch about one hundred miles
south of the Aroya ravine. The united expe-
dition would then proceed to Ayacucho and
possibly Arequipa, and, if successful, would
rid Peru effectually of a host of presidential
aspirants and people whose trade is politics
and whose politics is revolution.
| An explosion occurred in New York, result
| ing In the killing of Benjamin Burns. youth
aged fourteen years, and the serious injury
of nine other persons, mostly boys. The boys
| had started bonfire in lot in which they
were playing, and young Burns picked up
what appeared to be tomato-can filed with
grease, which he threw into the fire, and the
explosion Immediately occurred. The police
think the can was picked up by an ashman in
some place where blasting was going on,
nitro-glycerine being used for the purpose.