The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Enstern and sIiddle Stn,es,

Fisk & HATCH, tho well-known New York
brokers who failed during the recent panic,
have resumed business
JESSE CARTER (coloredD, convicted Of being
accessory TO the murder Of John Foster WAS
hanged ut PittSbTg, Penn. Babe Jones,
the principal in the murder, was hanged lust
April.
The Democratic State conventions iu Con.
nectcut, Vermont, anI in other States held
recently, all declared in favor OF the old
preside nlinl ticket Of 1876.
south and West.
THE cargo OF the steamer Wave, running
between Wilmington and Fayetteville, n. G.,
shifted and the vessel sank. Ned Beebc, col
ored cook; Lucy Graham, (colorod), and Elm.
pie Hill white, passengers, were drowned.
The Fourth Ohio Infantry regiment has
been disbnndcd on account of ineilicicncy dur
ing the Cincinnati riots.
GENERAL q. f. BABcoCH, formerly private
secretary TO President Grant, but Of lato EN-
gineer Of the Fifth Lighthouse district; Mr..
Levi Z. Luckcy, his chief clerk: Mr. Ben. T..
Sutter, Of Washington, d. c., and n seaman
were drowned in Mosquito Inlet, off the coast
Of Florida while experimenting the work on
the lighthouse now building at that point.
SADIE HAYES, n colored woman hns been
sentenced to death at st. Louis. for the nulGet
OF Police Sergeant jerks.
j. II. WENDELL, nm old resident Of Cald
well, Kansas, in lit of insanity caused 10y
whisky, shot and killed his wife, and thel
killed himself.
A TERRIBLE crime Is reported from Kansas
| Mrs. John Anderson, wife Of n poor farmer
and her four children We're all found muir
dcred near Plcasanton, and it was thought TN
father had met the same fate. The Aplersol
family had knowledge of crime committee
by one Lewis Wampler. The ctwo men left tn
house together. Wampler returned alone
saying that Anderson had sent for the family
They started in n wagon, and on the way it
supposed that Wampler murdered the woma
and the four children and fled.
THE remains of John Anderson, the sixt
victim Of the PlcasontOn (kan) murder, WEI
| found concealed in deserted coal shaft, wit
bullet wound In the head.
An airray among the Indians at the Ros
bud agency, growing out of the return to Il
reservation d Crow Dog, the slayer Of Spottc
Tail, resulted in the killing of Chief Viii
Thunder and the fatal woundinS of two oth'
Indians by the son aud friends of Spotted Tai
Crow Dog had been set free by decision
|
A TRAIN was wrockod on railroad betwc,
Denison and Gainesville i'll Texas, and fou
teen persons were reported TO have been kilt
and many others injured.
AT the election in Oregon the Republica
elected majority of their legislative canl
dates and their candidate for Congress.
Washington.
The last national debt statement issu
shows the decrease Of the public debt duril
May to I've 81, ,7Gj, ,2il,2O.
| Decrease of debt since june 80,
| 1871. Observation-Disclosures. S?l 90, ~
Cash in the Treasury ry...........3S9,36SG G3l
Gold certificates outstanding -. 9S,Sl2,2tO
Silver certificates outstanding. III ,3C,Ul
, Certificates of deposit outstand- ooo,
, ing,....... ................. Il,uDu,uh
b Refun1ing certificates. ........ gl JOB
e Legal tenders outstanding. ......AG, ,6sl ,0lG
J Fractional currency mot lnclud-
ins amount estimated as
lost ordostroycdl .......... G,9Sl 80
= Cash balance available .........lfi, ,SlI UO
e GOVERNMENT receipts in Mny aggregan
O S32l ,2;}4 ,646, against S3G3,3il ,il3 during Nj
1883. Government expenditures in May W
$40. .lyS .2!D, against S!5o,Gi7, ,lD during
a same period GSS year.
1t DURING May the various United Sta
u mints coined 242. lG0 gold pieces, worth S2,A
!, coo; 2,52O,OD silver pieces, worth S!,35l I.
!" and 7,2IS,OO minor COINS worth Sl&j,'
=, Total coinage, 1000, ,lGO pieces, worth $1,l
n, 100
n. SECRETARY LINCOLN telegraphed to
=, United States signal officer at Jacksonv
W Fla, to cause the remainsof General Babe
or to he embalmcd and sent TO Washington.
ee Foreign.
W NEWS has been received that vio
shock of earthquake occurred on the islam
kishm, near the mouth OF the Persian Z
Twelve villages were destroyed, IN per
killed and many Others injured.
SIXTY persons were injured during nn ,
T., tOral riot III CLusenburG, Austria
nj FIVE Mexican states have declared
ha | against the government on account OF
ma revenue stamp tax.
Of OSCAR WILDE, leader Of the aesthetics,
,es married II few days since in London.
'te FIVE persons were killed and about u
ad more injured by the precipitation of I
'Se down an cmbankncnt near Duwntoh
'% land.
~. FOURTEEN Of the crew Of the brig Cor
Nv crate stranded ON the lee ilOCS Of lAbIH
.nt have been lost.
,ol. TEN suicides occurred In Vienna, the
CO; trian capital, in two days.
es- THE False Prophets followers in the
nd dan hnvc captured the town of Abu-ilal
Rt A FIRE in london destroyed the East
don Aquarium. A number OF lions, u
or iackals and monkeys were burned to dca
val, A WOMAN who has been r1c'ted at V,
an ha, Hungary, nie,s thu she poiSone
Ter husbands ~ Il ulsj hundreds Ot wOm'
' OF in the aIt two yours, A number Z
tho vunulic,s were also arrested