Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-08-06

DonVeT. Inc engine ana IeuueT WERE
badly wrecked and one length of the
track was torn up. The passengers were
uninjured.
THE SOUTH.
THE trestle near Muscatine, Ca, on the
Georgia Pacific Road, fell recently, while q
passenger train bound for Atlanta was
passing over it, pitching passenger cal
downward. Six persons were seriously
hurt, two of them fatally.
Rev. DR.. w. r. DAVIS, pastor of the
signed recently by request of his congre-
CATION, who complained that he did not
preach loud enough and did not raise
them to a pitch of fervor.
A DUEL between W. B. Walker and Sam
uel j. Dalton of Aberde cen, Miss, was frus-
trated recently by the arrest of the parties
at Starkville. They were on their way to
Memphis to arrange for fight.
THE other evening, during a heavy thun.
der storm, lightning struck the house of w
j. Rains, at Lovelady, Tex. Six children
playing on the veranda, were Frustrated
by the shock, one of whom died. Two
others were in critical condition and
could hardly survive. Mrs. Rains was
severely Frustrated.
A FIRE broke out in Williams & Co...
planning mill at Memphis, Tenn, recently
burning that building together with 1000,
600 feet Of lumber; also the warehouse, and
W. n. Wilkerson & Co.'s warehouse, two
brick residences on Gayoso street, Sale
Cole & Co.'s warehouse on the corner OF
Gayoso and fernando streets, and eight
small dwellings. Total loss about $125 900;
one-third insured.
GENERAL FITZ HUGH LEE was nominated
by the recent Democratic convention a,
Richmond for Governor of Virginia.
JEROME F. MANNING, an attorney, has
been disbarred from practicing before the
Court of Alabama Claims for alleged inso-
lence to the court.
A PORTION of the old Ferry rolling mill
at South Wilmington, Del, fell recently,
and several men were buried in the ruins
George Ely, carpenter, and William Jones
draughtsman, were killed instantly, and
five or six others wounded.
THE Hon. C. B. Stewart died at his home
in Montgomery, Tex, on the 29th, in his
eighty first year. He emigrated to Texas
in 1880, and became an active participant
in the stirring scenes transpiring at that
time.
The other evening the Brentwood and
Cisco (Tex.) stage was robbed a mile and
half south of Cisco by two mounted men
In the second days proceedings of the
Democratic convention at Richmond, Va.
the platform was adopted and j. E. Massey
was nominated for Lieutenant Governor
on the first ballot and R. A. Ayres for At
torney General on the second ballot. Hon
John s. Barbour was unanimously re.
elected Chairman of the State and Execu.
tive Committees.
GEORGE WILSON, Charles Davis and
Mathilde Jones, oil colored, were executed
at PlaqIemine. La, on the 3lst for the
mur!er and robbery of Mrs. Henrietts
Cole. in that town, on the night of January
81 last.
CHARLES L. SKINNER, of Baltimore, was
recently disbarred from practice as ar
, nt:orney before the Interior Department,
at Washington for extortang illegal fees
GENERAL.
SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE, the Jewish cen.
tenarian philanthropst, died at Ramsgate
Eng, on the 2Sth.
THE report of Oliver Pains death has
been fully confirmed by Father Bonomi, an
italian priest who has been in Ell Mahdi's
camp and who has returned to Wady Halfa.
A condition of complete anarchy reigns
throughout the province and the city OF
Dongola.
CALLAN's motion of censure of JOKE
Bright for his utterances at the Spencer
banquet was rejected by the British House
press his contempt of Bright and of the
House.
THE Figaro states that the executors Of
Victor Hugo propose to erect a statue OF
the poet at Besancon, his birthplace, and
In the Pantheon tomb worthy of the illus
trious dead.
The steamer Isle Royale, owned by
Cooley, Lovague & Co., of Duluth, and
plying between Duluth and Port Arthur,
Susick Island. All the passengers aud
crew were saved. She was valued at SIS,
600, and was fully insured.
THE Corporation Of the. City Of Dublin
voted to present Hon. Patrick A. Collins,
of Boston. the freedom of the city.
BEDFORD MAcKAY. United States Consul
at Rio Grande De Sal, Brazil, arrived in
Washington recently on a leave of abb
sence. Mackay is the Consul who, some
weeks since, had shooting ARRAY with a
Brazilian editor. The Consul reports that
s colony of ex-Confederate soldiers is
located in Southern Brazil. The colony
numbers about 800 persons and is doing
we'll.
SENIOR CASTELAR,, the Republican
leader, was making a tour of Galicia::
Spain, recently. His reception by the
people was enthusiastic. The Government
prohibited the holding of banquets or se-e-
nades in his honor.
SEVERAL Liberal religious ooc:a.Se e.
Rome were reported organizing volunteer
relief expeditions to visit the cholera in
fected districts Of Spain, to 80 far as pos
sible alleviate the sufferings of the inhabit-
ants.
THE health Of the Emperor William, wh;!o
at Gastein, was greatly improved. He
walked well, saluting or talking with
friends he met. There were some fears,
however, that the Emperor was exercising
himself too much.