Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-09-20

THE ST. LOUIS ABDUCTION,
 FL PAso, sept. 1.-The sensation al reports reports regarding the pre- sence of Mary Churchill, the miss ing St. Louis girl in this neighbor hood. or in the ely of Chicahuahua, have all been run down here by cor respondents and detective in the ems plny of the St. Louis Giobe>Demo- crat and Post Dispatch. They have been pro. ca to have no foundation in fact, except the single circums- taRce that Caidwull, the man who disappeared from St. Louis at the same time as Miss Churchill, and who was supposed to have abducted her, has really been hc'e and vent from this city 10 Chihuabua. not Ii clew has been found to connect uim ih any manner with the missing gil and the opinion is now. that she has mt been here. Several women in this neighbOrhond h we been cndea vorIng to personate Miss Churchill ir order, douut.ess, to create sen sation. but tho game is now up and the search for her in these part + over. The St. Louis papers have paid hundreds of dollars for specials from this point within the past five day, hut are now about satisfied. T ry were on the wro"g scent. A gentleman who is personally ac- quainted with Miss Churchill has seen ihe woman most generally be- lieved to be her and pronounces that it S another person.
 BLANE DRAWN OUT.
 AUGUSTA, Me, sept. 13.-Blaine has been called upon regarding ths story publish' "n Tu sday purror ing to give his views touching B r. Ter political future. Blaine s, a he rarely noticed sensational ra graphs of any kind but he wc'i fr this case say that the news a'tr,"u ed to him was positively tie reversa fl those he held. He lid not ht five Butler could h., reel. cted G rn'c of NJ lssachu-eits and q the full, s: confidence that a republi an Pref dent will he chosen nex' year. The republican party, he added, will be found stronger in the elections ofiS4 than either 80 ur '76.
 PUBLISHER DE.D.
 MONMOUTH BEACH, N. T. Sept. 13 Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor of the New York Commercial Adcertiser died here al seven o'clock this mor..- ing.
 NO THONGS FROM LIEUTENANT GREE>
 LY.
 ST. JOHNS, N F., Sept. 13.-The U. S. steamship Zantic for the relief of Lleu' enant Greedy, has just an chored here. Her tidings are lament. able, as no word has been received from Greedy or any of his party. The steamer Prateous cruised in an in ice foe and the entrance of Smiths Sound, July g. Capt. Pike and his crew and scientific parry are passengers by the Zantic.
 NEW STEAMER-DEATH OF AN ADMI = RAJ.
 LONDON, Sept. 13.-The new In man steamer, City of Chicago, made ,, trial trip on the Clyde yesterday accomplishing a speed of 15 knots to the hour.
 Adm rabie Sir Richard Collessen K. c. B. F. R. G. s, is dead; he commanded the 'nterprise exredi iinn which left Plvmr ruth in 1850 in search of Sir John Franklin. NO INDIAN NEWS.
 FL PAso, Tex, Sept. 13.-There is | no Irdian news on elthtr side of the river at this point. Arrangements have been made to get he earlies information.
 IN NEW ROLE. CONCORD, N H.. Sent 18th The Senate Judiciary Committee has ms der consideration a bill incorporat ing what will be cal ed the Southern Pacific Company, by the provisions of which any railway or steamboat 
 line or lands in the United States may be purchased by the company, witllrfhe right to increase the capital l stock to an unlimited extent by the vote of parties interested. The cor porators' names are Chas. Pierce, c :. Crorker. NJ Hopkins. and Isaac E |. Gath, attorney for Governor Stanford who are said .o control the Califnr- mia system. Pierce, who testified hefo- the committee. stated it was proposed if the bill became law to 10 cnnsc.Ida the Louisiana, West ern Texas. New Orleans, Galve Harrisburg aud Sun Antonio. - ton. Texas Central and ot CT f1ii roads as well as steamboat line. hay ing an aggregate capital of grw9ri of $50.000 900 hesides owning COG 900 acres of land in Texas. IGNORING WILLARD IN OREGON.
 PORTLAND, Orn Sept. 12.-Por. land is one vast blaze of light ;his evening the occasion being au iIlu-