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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Wauhlngton. 
Secretary Boutweli. has determined to per¬ 
mit national banking associations to substitute 
for their five-twenty securities on their circula¬ 
tion ten-forties at the rate of eighty-five per 
cent, of t.helr par value and other gold-bearing 
six per cent, securities at the rate of ninety per 
cent. This exchange is subject to revision if if 
occurs so frequently as to become onerous to 
the Department. 
A married man who attends bar at a restaurant 
in Washington, was soundly cowhlded on Penn¬ 
sylvania Avenue on Hie 34th lilt., by the mother 
and aunt of a young lady whom he is believed 
to have decoyed from home. After getting a 
severe thrashing he managed to escape, and the 
women Were taken before a magistrate and fined 
two dollars. 
It is stated that Commander Owen, who is now 
on his way to the Ilaytien station with the Semi¬ 
nole, has orders to make vigorous reprisals for 
the recent outrages on American property in 
Samana Bay and elsewhere; and to make every 
effort to capture 1 tie piratical steamer 'I digraph, 
with which Luperon has been cruising about the 
Island. 
The Treasury Department will soon issue new 
United States notes of the denomination of one 
dollar, the plates for which are now being en¬ 
graved. i pon the now notes the bust of Wash¬ 
ington will be substituted for the vignette of 
Chief Justice Chase. This is in accordance with 
an act of Congress, which prohibits the likeness 
of any person now living from being on the toco 
of the national currency. 
Several Supervisors of Internal Revenue hav¬ 
ing proved Incompetent or dishonest, Commis¬ 
sioner Delano Ims determined to assume the 
responsibility of removing them during the re¬ 
cess of Congress, being satisfied Hint the intent 
of the la w Just illcs Ids action. 
Secretary Boutwell, in reply to an inquiry of 
the Collectornf Customs at New Orleans, decides 
that the coolie trade is illegal and contrary to 
the treaty between this country and China, 
which is now awaiting the approval of the Em¬ 
peror. The laws passed lu 1807 relative to this 
“ new modi0cation of slavery,” as the Secretary 
calls It, have not been abrogated, as some seem 
to suppose, but are in full force, and under them 
ministers, consuls, collectors and other officers 
of the Government are directed to use every 
effort to suppress the trade. 
Goorge B. MeCiirteo, Chief of the Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing in the Treasury De¬ 
partment, has resigned. 
A movement la being made among the army 
officers to demand of Congress next winter an 
increase of pay. 
The impression still prevails in Washington 
that Minister Sickles has Instructions relative to 
Cuba which are to direct him in Ids dealings with 
tlie Spanish Court. The officials at the State De¬ 
partment and (be Cuban agents, however, de¬ 
cline to say anything definite about the matter. 
A Washington correspondent states • hat a Gor¬ 
man banker has offered to loan our Government 
$300,000,000 at five per cent., but Mr. Boutwell 
lias declined It, as ho lias reason to believe that 
he can next wilder borrow money enough at 
four and a half per cent, to lake Up the five- 
twenties now due. 
Ex-Governor Hahn of Louisiana is urging Sec¬ 
retary Boutwell to punish the fraudulent sugar 
importers in New Orleans, and all implicated 
with them, no matter how high maybe their 
official position. The Secretary said he would 
have the parties tried and the evidence present¬ 
ed to the country without admitting of any 
compromise. 
It is rumored in Washington that Gen. Can by 
is to be sent to Mississippi to superintend the 
elections, and that Gen. McDowell is to succeed 
him in Virginia. 
In the trial of a negro recently in Washington 
for larceny, the Judge of the Criminal Court dis¬ 
charged him because he was arrested without, a 
warrant. The Superintendent of Police conse¬ 
quently lias issued au order that no arrests aro 
to ho made hereafter without warrants unless 
the officer sees the offence committed. 
The most dangerous counterfeit of an Internal 
Revenue stamp yet discovered was received on 
the 23tli uil. at t he Revenue Bureau lu Washing¬ 
ton from Keokuk, Iowa. It. is a twenty-one 
pound tobacco stamp, value thirty-two cents. 
Postmaster-General Creswcll, while on n visit 
to Ills father-in-law’s residence, near Klkton, 
Md„ on the 31th ult., accidentally moved bis 
chair too near the edge Of the piazza, and Jailing 
t o the ground broke ills left arm very badly near 
the elbow. Although be hoped to return to t$e 
capital in a few days, it will bo some timo before 
he can use Ills arm again. 
Canterbury Hall, erected ns a theater in Wash¬ 
ington city fifty years ago, was destroyed by lire 
on the ifikl ult. 
New Verb. 
Governor Hoffman has been summering at 
Saratoga. 
Engineers arc now at work surveying a new 
route for the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad, which 
carries the line around the head of the Great 
Sodus Bay considerably south of the old lines 
for several miles on cither side of the buy. The 
reason for the change of route is to avoid almost 
insurmountable grades. The survey passes to 
the south of Glenmark and crossos the Lyons 
and Alton ltoad some half u mile south of the 
latter place. 
In the conllagration occasioned by the railroad 
accident at Mast Hope, $17,000 worth of cigar 
and tobacco stamps, on their way to F. M. Finch, 
Ithaca, Collector for the 36th District, wore en¬ 
tirely destroyed. 
The Fishkill Journal, published at Fishkill 
proper, says that about three thousand letters 
annually come to that office for persons at Fish- 
kill Landing, because the writers suppose that 
Fishkill Poatofflce is located at the Landing. 
Garret Mynderse of Saugerties, now nearly 
ninety-three years of ftge, on Monday the 10th 
ult, raked and bound four hundred and eighty 
sheaves of wheat in four and a half hours. 
Thomas Rofe and James NcNulty, both about 
sixty years of age, were fishing in Onondaga 
Luke Sunday the 35th ult. when Itofe fell over¬ 
board, mul McNulty, in attempting to save him, 
upset the bout and both were drowned. 
A company for tin* manufacture of wine, near 
Aurora, Cayuga Lake, with a capital of forty or 
fifty thousand dollars, is in contemplation. Some 
gentlemen of Auburn are interesting them¬ 
selves in the enterprise. 
Syracuse thinks there is excellent promise of 
direct railroad communication from that city to 
Ithaca, a distance of twenty-five miles. The 
Journal says the project bus enlisted the co-oper¬ 
ation of able men, and doubts not Its success is 
reasonably assured. 
Two routes are discussed for the Rochester 
and State Line Railroad. One through Pavilion, 
Genesee county, and one through Vork Center, 
Livingston county. From Pavilion two routes 
are suggested; one to intersect the proposed 
silver Luke Railroad at Perry, and thence south¬ 
erly to East Gainesville or (Ms tie, passing over or 
under the Erie Railway, and striking the East 
CoyCreokut I he most available point. The other 
is from Rochester through Mumford, Pavilion, 
Pearl Creek, Warsaw and Newburgh. 
The International Industrial Exhibition is to 
be held in Buffalo during the month of October. 
The different railway, steamboat and express 
companies have agreed to return all goods on 
exhibition free of charge to the places from 
which they are received. Circulars containing 
all necessary information are soon to be forward¬ 
ed to manufacturers and producers in every part 
of the country. 
An indictment has been found in the Court of 
Oyer atld Terminer at Romo against General /. 
<;. Priest, Assistant Superintendent, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent Newell and Attorney Fairchild of the New 
York Central Railroad, for manslaughter. A 
special train containing them ran into a work¬ 
ing train, demolished it, and killed one man und 
injured several others on the 38th of August of 
last year; and it is charged that they were cul¬ 
pable in neglecting to telegraph or notify in 
some way of their coming. 
It is decided that the proposed trans-conti¬ 
nental railway convention shall be held in Os¬ 
wego, but when is not yet announced. Ail the 
leading railroads from Iho Pacific coast to New¬ 
foundland will be called upon to send repre¬ 
sentatives. 
The result of the Coroner’s investigation into 
the circumstances oT the Owego tragedy is the 
Justification of the killing of Bowers by Wlltse, 
the watchman, who died from wounds Indicted 
by Bowers. It has been found that the many 
burglaries, thefts and fires in t he town during 
the past few months were committed by a gang 
of [young fellows resident, in Owego, of whom 
Bowers was the leader. The town has been 
greatly disturbed by the nets of these fellows, 
and therefore much satisfaction is expressed at 
the result of the Inquiry. 
Judge Johnson, In the Seventh Judicial Dis¬ 
trict, has denied Hie motion to vacate the in¬ 
junction upon the trustees of Genesee College, 
restraining them from removing that Inst Motion 
from Lima to Syracuse. This decision is made 
without reference to the law nil! horlzihg the re¬ 
moval, passed by the last Legislature. ThO in¬ 
junction was procured before the passage of 
that law, and was for the purpose of preventing 
a removal before the litigation in progress to 
determine whether the right ol removal exists 
or can bo exercised, could be brought to an issue. 
Charles T. Harvey of Turrytown, the competi¬ 
tor of Mr. A. T. Stewart of New York, for Hie 
purchase of Hempstead Plains, has begun pro¬ 
ceedings against the town authorities of Hemp¬ 
stead to prevent, if possible, tlie delivery of the 
deeds to Mr. Stewart. The matter will be argued 
at the Special Term of IheQueens County Cir¬ 
cuit Court tn October next. 
Dr. Peters, of the Litchfield Observatory, 
started from Utica on the 26th ult. for lies 
Moines, Iowa, with the new German spectro¬ 
scope and other instruments for observing the 
solar eclipse of. August 7. His assistants are 
Professors Rogers of New Haven, and Frederick 
Hubbard and Isaac II. Hull of New York. The 
expense of this expedition, is provided for by 
the liberaJityof Edwin C. Litchfield of Brooklyn. 
Simeon B. Jewett, formerly United States 
Marshal for tho Western District of Now York, 
died ol his residence in tho town of Clarkson,on 
the 36th ult. of paralysis. His ago was sixty- 
eight years. 
On the 26th Deputy Sheriff Gregg of Rensselaer 
county, with a , posse numbering twenty idea, 
went, to the residence of a farmer named Den¬ 
nison, in East Greeobush, to levy on liis goods 
for non-payment of rent. On reaching the place, 
they found gathered about the premises about 
forty men. Not expecting any trouble, tho 
sheriff proceeded in the discharge of bis duly, 
but was obstructed by tho owner of the proper! y. 
The sheriff then attempted to take Deniifeou 
into custody, but tho crowd opened fire upon 
the posse with guns and pistols, when Sheriff 
Gregg was, it is feared, morlully, and Leonard 
.1. Wilbcek and Mr. Woods seriously, wounded. 
The sheriff's posse then made u hasty retreat.. It 
was reported that five of the posse were wound¬ 
ed, but the above aro the only names given. 
A singular accident occurred in Hudson on 
the 20th ult. As the up-train on tho Hudson 
River Railroad, due thereat three o’clock, was 
approaching tho station, n freight-ear of the 
Hudson and Boston Railroad, loaded with iron 
rails, stood directly across the track at I he cross¬ 
ing of the two roads. A collision, of course, 
took place, the train passing through tho freight 
car, carrying the center of it off on the cow¬ 
catcher, und leaving the trucks standing un¬ 
moved. The rails were scattered at u fearful 
rate, knocking down telegraph poles, splitting 
the ting-house, and shattering the coal office of 
Moore & Hogcbootn, Hie inmates of which had a 
very narrow escape. The engiuoor and fireman 
jumped from the train, but a man from the re¬ 
pair-shop, who Avas on the engine at the time, 
remained at his post and stopped the engine. 
At a meeting of the Trustees of Union College 
at Schenectady, on the 27th ult., Charles A. 
Aiken. Professor in Princeton College, av;is 
elected President. 
Edward Halpin, an elderly man from Blank 
Rock, fell over an embankment at Niagara Falls, 
near the Table Rock, a distance of ono hundred 
and eighty feet, on the 23d ult. He Avas instant¬ 
ly killed, his body being mangled in a dreadful 
manner. 
Judge Williams, Treasurer of Hamilton Col¬ 
lege, has received trom the studio of Hiram 
Powers, in Italy, a marble bust of Edwin C. 
Litchfield, valued at $10,000. It is to be placed in 
the Perry H. Smith Library, Avith other me¬ 
morials of the college benefactor. 
An appalling catastrophe occurred on the eve¬ 
ning of the 23th ult. at about 3:15 o'clock in 
Printing-house square in New York City. Some 
fireworks iti a wagon, tho six occupants of Avliich 
Avere returning from a choAvder party, were sud¬ 
denly ignited, one of the party having carelessly 
dropped a box of burning matches in their 
midst. An explosion folloAved, by which seven 
persons Avere injured, three of them fatally. 
Maine, 
Portean i) has, at different times, appropriat¬ 
ed $3,000,000 to railroad enterprises. 
A citizen of Belfast, avIio bad not seen his son 
for eight years, ami supposed him dead, recog¬ 
nized him as one of the acrobats in a circus 
which exhibited in that city two weeks ago. 
New Hampshire. 
There were one hundred and forty arrivals 
at the Glen House, in the White Mountains, on 
Monday, the 26tit ult. The mercury hasn't been 
aboA’e 72“ there this season. 
Work at the Portsmouth Navy Yard is very 
brisk Just at present. About, three hundred 
men are now employed there, and several hun¬ 
dred more will soon be added to the force. 
James Dennett of Portsmouth, eighty-seven 
years old, still works at his trade as a carpenter. 
He recent ly shingled a house, working six suc¬ 
cessive days, ami kept up withaimiu of half his 
years who assisted him. 
Vermont. 
A committee of the Vermont Council of Cen¬ 
sors have reported In favor of an amendment to 
the Constitution of the State for Female Suf¬ 
frage. 
A. D. II agar, State Geologist, firm in tho belief 
that the Winooski River may again be made a 
salmon stream, proposes to put a few hundred 
of those fish into the river near Montpelier, for 
the purposed' trying the experiment. 
ITlussae It u setts. 
The College races at Worcester on the 23d ult., 
passed off .successfully. Contrary to all expecta¬ 
tions, Harvard won tho University and the 
Freshmen races. Harvard’s time in the first was 
18 minutes and 2 seconds, and Yale's. 18 minutes 
and 11 seconds; and in t he second, 10 minutes, 30 
seconds. The enthusiasm at the unexpected re¬ 
sult was immense. The quick stroke of the 
Harvard's (forty-seven to the minute) aud their 
light weight and splendid condition Avon the 
race in the face of the betting of t hree to one 
on the Yala's just before the start. 
Tho proposition forthe Introduction of Chinese 
labor into ilia shoe businoa of Lynn meets wit b 
general approval from the HUuiulacturers in 
] that city. 
Springfield is to have a Peace Jubilee on Wed¬ 
nesday a nd Thursday, Sept. 8 and 9. The chorus 
| will consist of the singers from Western Massa¬ 
chusetts mu! the Connecticut Valley >vlio took 
part in the Boston .1 utiileo. 
Itliodc Island. 
NEWPORT is last, filling up Avith summer visit¬ 
ors. Tho handsomest new cottage built this 
season Is that of Mrs. Goorge Francis Train, and 
she has not yet shown it to her husband, who is 
on the Pacific coast. 
The Common Council of Providence has fixed 
the salary of the President of the Board of City 
Water Commissioners at $4,000. 
Connecticut. 
A Fin ,!,-drooped Japanese lias entered the 
Freshman class at Wesleyan University for the 
next term. 
One hundred aud tAveivo young men have been 
admit t ed into tho Freshman class of Yale. The 
examination was more thorough this year than 
ut a ny previous iluiv'ud It r- said that Lite schol¬ 
arship Of the incoming class will bo above the 
average of all former classes. 
New Jersey. 
An effort is to be made to raise $200,000 for 
Rutgers Theological Seminary, for the comple- 
i ion ol the endowment of the Professional Fund, 
I increase of the library, repairs of tho hall, im¬ 
provement of the ground, erection of a fourth 
professoral residence, and the payment, of the 
debt incurred by the General Synod for tho The¬ 
ological Seminary. 
An insane ratio named David II. Itrewen es¬ 
caped trom Ins (riends in Madison, on the 23d 
ult., and stealing a rule upon a freight train, 
wont to Succassunna Plains, Avboro his strange 
actions caused a party to make an attempt to 
secure his arrest. BroAvon resisted Avith a knife, 
and three persons wore n on uded. One, a young 
man by the name of Buck, xvtio Avas standing on 
the sidewalk, Avas stabbed near the heart, and, it 
is reported, died the next morning. 
There lias been another collision on the Erie 
Railway. James Bogert of Passaic, and Charles 
I H. James of Paterson, were seriously injured on 
Wednesday, the 31st ult.., by a collision betAveen 
a passenger train and a freight train. Tho col¬ 
lision occurred near 1 the Jersey City depot, and 
was eauscl by the misplacement of a sAviteh. 
Several were Avounded, among Avhom avus the 
conductor of the train. 
A n cxcitJ ug lire Occurred at 1 iong Branch early 
on the morning of tho 35th ult. The stables of 
Hie Mansion House caught lire, and were com¬ 
pletely destroyed In ti short time, the lire burn¬ 
ing rapidly. The horses were all saved i hrough 
the exertions of the servants and the guests of 
tho Ma nsion and Continental. The stable-keep¬ 
ers, who were in the building at tho timo the lire 
broke out, Avere obliged to jump from the win- 
doAvs to save their lives. The loss is estimated at 
$10,000. 
One Charles Evors has been sentenced by the 
IT. S. District. Court, at Trenton, to pay a fine of 
$100, and to imprisonment in the Hudson Coun¬ 
ty Jail for six mouths, lor haviug sold cigars 
from au unstamped box. 
. Pennsylvania. 
The bail of James Griffin, the engineer of the 
freight train on tho Erie Railway which, by 
crossing (he track Avbeu the express train had 
the l ight ol Avay, caused the disaster at Must 
Hope, has been fixed at $6,000. 
During a gale in Springfield, Bucks county, on 
the 83d ult., the roof of a barn which had been 
lifted by the wind, came down on a funeral pro¬ 
cession, instantly killing a man named Sales, a 
resident of Berks county, and injuring several 
other persons. 
Charles A. Aughinbaugh, a jeweler in Harris¬ 
burg, received ft package through Adams’ Ex¬ 
press, On the 2«th ult., inclosing some four thou¬ 
sand dollars’ Avorth of jewelry which was stolen 
from his store on t he night of Hie 4t.h of Juno. 
The articles look as if they had been buried. 
Maryland. 
In t he case of Elias Ward, a resident of New 
Jersey, who avuh arrested in Baltimore somefeAV 
months since, and fined by the Criminal Court 
for selling goods by sample Avithout having first 
taken out the special license required by a law 
of tho State from non-resident traders, tho Court 
of Appeals of Maryland has rendered a decision 
sustaining the action of the lower tribunal. 
Several other non-resident traders were arrested 
on the same charge and about the same time as 
Ward, and having been fined by the Criminal 
Court, agreed to make a test ease of Ward, t hey 
contending that the law requiring this special 
license is in contravention of the Constitution 
of the United States. They propose to carry 
the ease to the United States Supreme Court, if 
necessary. 
Virginia. 
Gen. Candy has ordered that a§ much of the 
January interest on the State debt as the Treas¬ 
urer is able to pay shall be paid at. once. There 
is upwards of $400,000 In the State Treasury—a 
litt le over one-half of the amount due on the 
January interest. 
A twenty-inch gun, weighing over fifty-seven 
tons, was landed on the beach at Fortress Mon¬ 
roe on the24th ult., witIi considerable difficulty. 
Tlie gun was east in Pittsburg, Pa. A carriage is 
to be made for it. 
Tho British steamer Lord Lovell, Avhich wlifch 
cleared from Baltimore on Friday, the 33d ult., 
for Havana, was overhauled on Saturday even¬ 
ing off Cape Henry by the revenue cutter North¬ 
erner, Cupt. McGowan, by orders from Washing¬ 
ton, on suspicion of being engaged in carrying 
arms, &e., to the Cuban revolutionists. After a 
thorough search she was released, nothing being 
found to justify her seizure. 
North Carolina. 
While a company of the North Carolina State 
Militia wore waiting for transportation from 
Goldsboro to Raleigh some two weeks ago, two 
of the men, mimed William Putney and Edward 
Morse, got away’ from the command, got intoxi¬ 
cated, next quarreled, and then ono, Putney’, 
stubbed tiie other. Both wore arrested and put 
under guard, when Richard Putney, a brother 
of William, attempted to rescue the latter. A 
general fight ensued between the guard and the 
mutinous men, which resulted in the death of 
William Putney. 
South Carolina. 
A negro riot, that, at one moment threatened 
to assume serious proportions, occurred in 
Charleston on Sunday night the 25th ult. A 
brass baud, composed of colored men, who were 
said to bo Democrats, xa’hs accompanying a visit¬ 
ing busc-buIi club to Hie Savannah boat, Avhen 
they Avere attacked by a mob of several hundred 
men. Sticks and stones were used, and several 
shots Avere fired, and several persons wore 
wounded. The interference of the military 
finally’ restored comparative order. 
A telegram from Augusta states that a po¬ 
litical light between whites occurred at Upper 
Three Runs, Barnwell District, South Carolina, 
on tho 2-1 tli ult., and that two men Avere killed 
and several Avounded. No particulars aregiven. 
Georgia. 
Information of the general prevalence of 
drought. In Middle Georgia is received. Jeffer¬ 
son, Hutieock, Columbia, and Putnam counties 
suffer most, severely. The corn ling been cut 
short, and the cotton has suffered to an unusual 
extent, more especially where the plant lias 
been stimulated in it* growth by the t ree use of 
fertilizers, the forms dropping and the leaves 
drying Up. The plant itself Is small—backward 
for tho season — but has hitherto giveil good 
promise of fruit. 
Burglars entered the residence of Richard 
Bradley, tn Savannah. early on Saturday morn¬ 
ing, thu 24th ult., aud, after stupefying John II. 
Bradley’, tho only person in the house,by placing 
a sponge saturated avRIi chloroform on his pil¬ 
low ns he lay asleep, leisurely ransacked the 
house and took off all the valuables that they 
I could easily carry. During burglaries have been 
quite frequent of late in Savannah. 
Florida. 
Tiie business portion of (lie toAvn of Milton 
at the head of Pensacola Bay, was entirely de¬ 
stroyed by fire a few daysago. Very little of the 
property destroyed Avas insured. The county 
records were all lost. 
IiOiilNiana. 
The petty AA’ar between the two factions into 
Avhich a number of the Sicilians in New Orleans 
aro divided, the Palermo and Messina parties, 
has broken out anew. Some two weeks since 
several members of the two parties meeting, 
shots were freely exchanged, and t wo men Avere 
killed—Joseph Bananoand Pietro Allucio. 
Mississippi. 
A decision has been rendered by’ the Military 
Commission at Jackson In the Verger case; but 
the finding and sentence arc to be kept secret 
until after the approval of the proceedings of 
the Commission by the authorities at Washing¬ 
ton. Colonel Barr. Assistant Judge-Advocate, 
has returned to Washington with the papers, 
and the Commission lias ad.iuorned to Hie 2d of 
August, it is surmised, however, that tiie Com¬ 
mission has round The prisoner guJIty of mur- 
| rier und sentenced him to death, as the sentence 
In any case short of capital punishment would 
have needed only the approval of the Com- 
| manding General of tiie District, and this has 
been forwarded to Washington lor approval. 
Tennessee. 
The northern bound train of the Memphis and 
and Ohio Railroad, due at Clarkcsvilla at F15 A. 
M., foil through tin- Rudd's Creek trestle bridge, 
nine miles south of Clarkesvillo, at 12:30 A. M., 
on the 28th ult. The engine, tender, baggage 
car, and Iavo passenger cars went through the 
trestle-work. The three curs caught tire and 
Avere entirely consumed. The New Orleans 
sleeping car alone escaped the flames, but was 
badly damaged. The engineer, fireman, and 
Hugh McCall, a cotton merchantof New Orleans, 
Avere killed instantly, and a large number of 
passengers—about a hundred, it is stated—'were 
wounded. Among the badly injured was Mrs. 
McCall, whose husband Avas killed. This is the 
second time within three years that this trestle- 
work has given Avay, aud as it has always been 
considered unsafe, the officers of the road are 
seA’erely censured for their apparent criminal 
negligence. A dispatch from the scene of the 
accident says that the express books and papers 
have been saA’od from the Avreck. From these 
it is ascertained that the safe contains about 
$100,000. At last accounts the safe could not be 
found. 
Ohio. 
JcsT at the opening of a “Grand Song Festi¬ 
val” in Cleveland in Avhat is known as the Forest 
City Rink, temporary seals, on which ten or fif¬ 
teen hundred children, who were to form tho 
choir, Avere arranged, fell. Quite a panic ensued 
among tho children and audieuuc, but fortu¬ 
nately nobody was hurt. 
At Cincinnati, one day last week, a man came 
into the Mayor’s office and requested the Mayor 
to take care of him, saying that “he had just 
arrived from St. Louis, having Avalked all the 
way, over hills and mountains and through val¬ 
leys, in the endeavor to get away from the 
witches, three of whom are constantly after 
him.” lie curried a big switch, and occasionally 
would cry “ there is one,” at the same time strik¬ 
ing vigorously Avith the switch. He thought he 
Avould be all right if the Mayor would take charge 
of him, and, in accordance with his Aiish, he Avas 
locked up in the Ninth street station-house. 
Illinois. 
In the toAvn of Beloit, not long since, a Deputy 
Sheriff named Parsons Johnson and a Constable 
named Hawley, xvere shot by a burglar whom 
they laid arrested and were conveying to jail. 
The former was hit in the leg and the latter in 
the abdomen. The burglar escaped. Hawley 
was probably fatally injured. 
The Big Vermillion Coal Mines have been so 
completely Hooded with water that it has been 
impossible to mine coal for four er five Aveeks 
past. 
Tho trial of lte\’. C. E. Cheney began on the 
21st ult., at Chicago. Mr. Cheney claimed that 
the presentment was informal and, therefore, 
invalid; that, the Church canons Avere violated 
in various ways in the constl lotion of t he ecclesi- 
uStieai court, and, therefore, ho took exceptions 
to all these points and several others. But, as 
all his points wore overruled, ho appealed to the 
Superior Court Of tiie city tor an injunction to 
prevent any further proceedings against him 
under tiie defective presentment. This injunc¬ 
tion avus served upon tiie members of Hie ecclesi¬ 
astical court on the 32d, to their groat astonish¬ 
ment, but of course there was nothing else to do 
but, to obey the mandate, and accordingly tiie 
court adjourned until the next day, and then 
until the 29th—the decision upon Hie dissolution 
or continuance of Ihe injunction to be settled 
ineamvhlle In tho Superior Court. 
Michigan. 
A Miss Gertrude Mann created quite a sen¬ 
sation in Adrian on Friday, tho 23d ult., by at¬ 
tempting to walk twenty-live miles in six hours 
and twenty-throe minutes, on a t rotting t rack. 
She accomplished her task easily, and wanted to 
keep on and complete fifty miles, but was dis¬ 
suaded by her friends. In thoeroAvdof spectators 
was Weston. This wonderful female pedestrian 
lives in tho town of Romes near by. 
The toAvn of Fere Marquette, the terminus of 
the Flint and 1’ere Marquette Railroad, on tho 
eastern shore of Lake Michigan, I ms been sold, 
together with the great lumbering Interests of 
Mr. James Ludington, to a new company, of 
which Mr. D. S. Filer of Manistee, Is the repre¬ 
sentative, for $500,000. Tho property consists of 
one of the handsomest towns in that section of 
tho State, mills, &C., and I lie tract Is 25,1)00 acres 
in extent, embracing some of the best timber 
lands in Hie count ry. The company propose to 
put up one of tho largest saw-mills iu the State, 
and to improve the property as rapidly impos¬ 
sible. 
Samuel M. Felkcr, a Detroit detective, is under 
arrest on a charge of conspiracy to assassinate 
Allan Pinkerton, the head of the Chicago aud 
New York Private Detective Bureau. 
Minnesota. 
This State sends her second woman missionary 
to Asia in the person of Miss Addle Ely of St. 
Peter, the first being a daughter of Rev. Mr. 
Riggs- 
The report of the Commissioner of the Land 
Cilice, Just received, shows that, in this State35,- 
531,118 acres of public laud are yet iu possession 
of the Government. 
Iowa. 
The Davenport Academy of Natural Science 
have completed their arrangements for taking 
photographs of t he eclipse of to-day. 
The principal cities in Town return the follow¬ 
ing valuation of realty to the Auditor of the 
State;—Council Bluffs, $4,21 MW; DOS Moines, 
$3,008,458; Dubuque. $3,503,840; Davenport, $2,- 
860,590; Keokuk, $2,631,124; Burlington. $2,092,- 
905; Muscatine, $1,372,910; Ioayu City, $8«0,490. 
The party selected to make astronomical ob¬ 
servations at Dos Moines, upon tho eclipse this 
afternoon consists of Prof, Win. Hurkacss and 
J.U. Eastman,of the United States Navy; Ed- 
Avarn Curtis und B. E. Lcmerle, of the United 
States Army; also M. V. Beemail, of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. Prof. Austin, of the Coust Survey, 
has been making exact observa tions, uml lias 
found just where Des Moines is located. Its 
longitude Avest from Washington Is sixteen de¬ 
grees, forty-three minutes aud five seconds, the 
latitude being forty-one degrees and thirty-five 
minutes. The difference in time between Dcs 
Moines and Washington is onchOUr, six minutes 
and eighteen seconds. 
Missouri. 
The jewelry store of II. Prouhert, in St. Louis, 
avus robbed of $8,000 worth of diamond rings on 
the 2-ith ult. by a woman. Tho robbery avus 
committed ut a moment when the proprietor 
was at the rear of his store, showing goods to 
two men. It is supposed that the men Avere the 
woman's accomplices. They wore strangers in 
the city, and left a cry suddenly soon after the 
robbery. 
Arkansas. 
A different account of the murder of Cap¬ 
tain lluynes, iu Marion on the 15th ult. than that 
sent by the telegraph, is given by the Coroner 
who helfi the inquest. He declares that the mur¬ 
der aa’us entirely unprovoked, and that, the man 
CoLier stole up behind Haynes as lie passed 
along tin? street, and shot him In the back, then 
Cent over him, after he fell, and discharged five 
more shots into bis body, und then leaped upon 
his horse and rode off. The Coroner also asserts 
that Collier was hired to commit the murder by 
a number of wealthy citizens, and received 
$2,000 for the act. Collier has uot been heard 
from since he committed Hie cowardly act, and 
it is thought by many that he has been captured 
and killed. Others are ot the opiuion that he 
lias escaped to the other side of the river and is 
safely hidden. The horse on Avhich he hurried 
out of Morion avus found not long after by a 
band of negroes near Memphis, Tennessee. 
Texan. 
The farms along the eutlre breadth of the 
vafleysjof the Colorado, Brazos and Guadaloupe 
Rivers h:iA r e been entirely swept away by the 
recent floods. The estimated damage ou the 
Colorado alone is $3,000,000. 
California. 
The California Republican State Convention 
was held in San Francisco on the 32d ult. Lo¬ 
renzo Sawyer and O. C. Pratt Avere nominated 
Judges of the Supreme Court. Among the res¬ 
olutions adopted Avas one opposing China suf¬ 
frage iu any form, und any change iu the nut u- 
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