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GENERAL DlRECTOHY.
POST onrtdts. i
TFt'tisAM Office boon from 6 50 A. M
U 7.-30 o'clock, P. 1L Office open from
7 to 8 o'clock, A. M-, Sundays, f Rail
road Mail closes every day, Snndsy
excepted at 4:15 P. M., arrites at
12:30 AM. , ; I
1 Mosul Airy Mail closes erery day,
Sunday excepted, at 7 o'clock, A.
M. Dae erery day, at 6, P, M. j
Madison Mail closes' erery Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, at 7 o'clock, A.
M. Due erery Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday; at 6, P. M. i
The Mails for Richmond Hill, Fulton
and Hantsvffle Ieare from Salem: office
as follows;-Hontsrille Mail, ria Clem
monsrille, Lewisrille and Panther Creek,
- eloses Monday, Wednesday and Friday
at 30. A, M. Dae Tuesday, Thursday
andvSaturday at 3, P. M.
Fnlton Mail, ria Friedberg, Miller's
Mill and Elbarille, closes erery Friday
at 630, A. M., due erery Saturday by
2, P. M. !
Richmond Hill Mail, ria Moant Tabor,
Vienna, Red Plains and East Rend ;
closes erery Friday and Monday, at 6,
A. M., dne erery Saturday and Tuesday
by 8, P. M. I
Mail for Salem closes erery day, as
indicated by arriral of alt. Airy andd
Madison mails.
W. A. Waijcxb, P. M.
Salem Office honrs from 630 o'clock.
A- M., to 530, P. M., and one hour af
ter the R. R. mail is open daring the
week. As no ma. Is arrive or depart on
Sunday, the office will not be open on
that day.
II. W. Shoes, P. m.
CUVSjCKE. ' i
He nod is E. Church, Vin$on, Reri P.
J. Corraway, pastor. Services twice a
week. Preaching Sunday morning at
10J o'clock, A. 11. Also, at 6 o'clock,
iP. M. Prayer meeting erery Wednes
day night. The Sunday School meets
erery Sabbath at 2 o'clock, P. M. I
Methodist Proes a n Church, Winston,
Rer. R. II. Wills, pastor. Preaching
erery Sandav at 11, A. M.. and 7, P. M.
Sunday School at 1, P. M. -
Presbyterian Church, Winston, JJer.
F. IL Johnson, pastor. Services erery
Sabbath morning and erening, by the
eastor. Sabbath School meets rat 8
o'clock, A. M. Prayer, meeting every
Wednesday evening.
Dapis Church, Winson, Rer. H.
A. Brown, pastor. Services very
Sabbath at 10 o'clock, A IL4 and
-at 630 P.M. Prayer meeting on Wed
nesday night. Sabbath School at 2
, o'colck, P. M. 3
Episcopalian, Winston.. No Church
but services held in the Male Academy by
Rer. Mr. Bynum the last Sabbath in
each month. Preaching beginning at
10 o'clock, A. M., and at 4. P. M. I
Moravian Church, Salem, Rer. Ed. Ron
thaler pastor. Services erery Sabbath.
Morning bell rngs at 9:45, A. M.,? and
services commence promptly at 10, A. M.
Evening, bell rings at 6:45, P. and
services commence at 7, P. M. Sunday
School meets at 1 o'clock, p. m.
Moravian Church, colored, Salem, i Rt
Rer. E. A. DeScbweinett preaches the
second and fourth Sabbaths of .each
month. Rer. Lewis Hege, coL, preached
rery Sunday night
Methodist Church, colored, Wimslon,
Rer. K B. Gibson, pastor. Preaching
erery Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M., at 4,
M., and at 7, P. M. Sunday School
at 2. P. M.
SOCIETIES.
WrcsTos Chapteb No. 24 of Royal
Arch Masons meets in the Masonic Hall
at Winston each first and third Friday
night of every month. ?
H. T. Bahssoh, High Priest
O. S. Hausml See.
Saxem Lodos No. 280, A. F.& A. M.,
meets in the Hall over Siddall's Store
first Thorsday night in e rery month, at
7 o'clock.
C. Fools, W. M.
J. E. Bcthsr, Sec'y. I
Salem Lodge No. 36, . O. ft P.,
meets every Tuesday night at 8 o'clock,
in the Hall ore Siddairs Store. ;
J. H. Shcltz, N. ;3t.
W. A. Wauib, Secretary.
Wikstos Lodo No. 167, A. F.
. i. M., meets second Saturday night
f each month, and on Tuesday night
,n Superior Court and on the Aniversa
ries of the Holy St John.
a D. Fiuxxux, W. M.
8. H. Smith, Secretary. I
Salem Encampment, No. 20, . O. 0. P.,
meets second and fourth Fridays of each
month, at 8 o'clock. In the Hall over
Siddall'a Store.
Dr. V. O. Thompson, C. P.
C. A. Foozjb, Scribe. I J
Salem Lodge Jfo. 18. KnighU qfpyihia.
meets every Wednesday night t 7
o'clock, in the Hall orer Siddall's Store
W, U. VooUcr, yju.
Jko H. Shtltz. K. of R. 8c S.
Winson Lodge 2fo, 66. . 0. Q. T.,
meets in Winston every Thursday night
at 7 o'clock, over Thompsons Drug
Store. J. Q. A. Baskax, W. U. T.
. omaiL
A. B. Gorrell.
BOASD WEJSTOH.
, Mayor,
C Hamlin . . .Treaaarer.
own ComossioKKBS J. A. Bitting,
. W. P. Henley, T. . J. Brown, 8. Byer
ly.P. W. Dl ton, P. A.. Wilson, C
Hamlin.
School Committee J. a Miller,
Jesse Riggs, .and I L Hine.
Btiet Committee J. A. Bitting, P
A. Wilson, W. P. Ueuley. i
Chief of Police W. T. PfohL
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coiaciasioifxss roBSTTH ooumrr.
A.E. Conrad, Chairman; This. J.
Wilson and T. J. Valentine. J
The Board meets the first Monday in
rery month, at the Court Hou
A. E. r Holton, j
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XRJTLIt PRACTICE' UT THE Courts
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VOL. .8.
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A BETKOSPECTIVE GLANCE.
NOTABLE ACCIDENTS AND IN
CIDENTS OF-1878.
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Abridged from New Tori:' Times.
The last pitched battle of " the Rosso
Tarkish war was fought on Jan. 11, at
the southern entrance to - the Schipka
Pass in the Balkan Mountains, when
Oen. Radetzky captured the whole
Turkish Army opposed to him. Within
a fortnight thereafter Suleiman Pasha
buraed Philippopolis, and Adrianople
wa evacuated. On Feb. 7 the Russian
troops arrived before , Constantinople,
and were only restrained from entering
the city by the threatening presence of
strong squadron of the British fleet
These were dangerous elements to be so
closely placed together, and for several
months rumors that England and Russia
had co oie to open blows were frequent,
though always false. Negotiations for
peace were begun at Adrianople on
Jan. 20. In 11 days the Grand Duke
Nicholas and St-rrer and Namjk Pashas
bad agreed upon the terms of an armis
tice and a "protocol' containing six
"bases of peace," which were expanded
and formulated into the 29 articles of the
"preliminaries of peace," or treaty of
Sao Stefano, as it was cal'ed, after the
insignificant and befor iLmw Lawrtx
where it was signed on March 3 by Oen.
Ignatieff anil Saf vet PashsJ Thus for
mally encUd a war which was begun
ostensibly for a religious causa, and
which cost st least 200,000 lives. Russia
alone lost 00,000 men before February,
and spent 933,000,003 roubles. But for
a time it seemed as if the formal con
clusion of peace was merely the actual
extension of the theatre of war to in
clude all Europe and much of Asia.
Gen. Ignatieff was sent to Vienna to
explain the treaty, but Austria declared
that it was irreconcilable with European
interests as well as with her own. On
behalf of England Lord Salisbury made
similar doo.arations in a circular ad
dressed to all the powers, and hinting
intelligibly enough at war in case Rus
sia sought to withdraw from the cogni
zance of Europe any modifications of
existing treaties. It was clear that the
matter could only ba settled by a
European Congress, such as had met at
Constantinople iu 1377, and early in
February Aubtria made proposals for its
meeting. But there was doubt as to
what powers were entitled to an iurita
tion to this splendid, though far from
jovial gathering, aud there was still
fuither doubt as to what the delegates
should base their discussions npon; and
as to how they could enforce their de
cisions. England, especially, refused
to attend, unless Bossia would formally
engage to submit erery clause of the
San Stefano treaty, as well as to abide
by what the congress should declare
Uer duty. Russia, in reply, would con
sent only informally to submit the
whole treaty, aud reserved a reto upon
all matters which, in her" opinion, did
not fall within European jurisdiction.
Here was a dead-lock of a most serious
character, and it was either in prepara
tion for a general Euro pea a war, or by
wav of a show of force which
prevent such a disaster, whose
end no
man could foresee, that Lord Boacons
field dazzled England aud Europe alike
by ordering a contingent of Indian
troops to Malta. This introduction of
Asia into the wars of Europe, and rais
ing of troop in times of peace, and
without the consultation of Parliament,
was an act which would hare been
dared by, perhaps, no English Minister
uta Beaconsneld, and certainly would
hare been pardoned in none but him.
But on May 24 the House of Commons,
by a rote of 317 to 226, rejected tbe
Marquis of Hartington's resolution
censuring tbe Administration. Nc use
was found for the troops, howerer, as
the dead-lock was evaded by a secret
agreement between Count Schouraloff
and Lord Salisbury, which was pub
lished to the world by one Marvin, a
copyist in the English Foreign "Ontoe,
who sold toaijoaaon newspaper ma
recollection of its contents. It may be
correctly enough paraphrased by saying
that in accordance with its provisions
England engaged to gire way in the
Congress to Russian ambition in
Europe, upon the distinct understand
ing that Russia would advance no
farther in tbe direction of Auntie
Turkey. The way was new clear for
the congress, and on J one 3 Germany
ianed invitations to the signatories of
tliA treaties of 1856 and 1871 to send
to Berlin, Ambassadors who should dis
cuss the treaty of San Stefano. The
invitations were so worded that they
implied a guarantee on the part of the
sender that the whole treaty would be
submitted -without reservation or ex
ception of secret clauses, and that ae
eeptaaee of the inritation would imply
pledge to abide byvtha deciaiona of
the congress. All tiie powers accepted.
On June 13 this august assemblage met
st the Radxiwill Palace, in Berlin, and
on July H the: delegates signed, in
alphabetical order, the 53 articles known
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DEVOTED TO POLITICAE. AOmOULTTJIUlA; TVtTSOET.Ti A NEOPS ; AND RELIGIOUS BHAJ)INQ.
WINSTON N; C, THIJBSDA
as the treaty of Berlin, end which
body the latest settlement of ' the East
ern Question. ' Only an ides of the ter
ritorial changes made by ii can be g iren
here. By the treaty of San 84efano,
Turkey was called upon to surrender
78,550 square miles, peopled by 4.539,
000 inhabitantaBy the treaty of Berlin
Turkey loses 83,300 square Bailee and
4,882,000 inhabitants, leering only
71,790 square miles and 4,779,000 in
habitants, of whom rather less than
one-nau are Aionammcdans. it was
about the time of the conclusion of this
treaty that the secret conrention be
tween England and Turkey was made
public. Bjt ita tetnu England engages
to defend the Saltan's Asiatio posses,
ions, if at any time they are attacked.
and in return acquires control, though
not absolute possession, of Cyprus
thus virtually making tbe Mediter
raneaa Sea an English lake and securing
unbroken communication with India.
The necessity of limiting Russia's
advance in Asia, and the worthlestnesa
of imperial promises, were both quickly
demonstrated. Once more tbe Russian
diplomatbt outwitted their English
opponents by breaking faith with them.
Afghan istan is a small country, peo
pled by barbarous inhabitants, but it
lies on the northwest frontier of British
India, and commands tbe highway
thenee to Europe. Through its nearly
impregnable mountain ranges passes,
and must pass, commerce of untold
raiue. For these reasons Afghanistan
has a strategical importance which ean
scarcely be overestimated, and the
British Government hare always been
most sensitive as to tbe friendship or
hostility of its ruler. But even while
Schouraloff and Salisbury were cor
responding, other representatives of the
Csar W04 e ingratiating themselves with
Shere Ali, and the ink upon the just
mentioned xntmorandum between the
two diplomatists was scarcely dry when
a Kusttiun mistuon was ostentatiously
established at Cuba I. For ten years the
English had scarcely endured Shere
Ali's sulleu reserve, and had with diffi
culty submitted to his refusal to receive
an English embassy. Now it was deter
mined that he should receive one
whether he liked it or not, and Sir
Neville Chamberlain was on his way to
Cabol when his expedition was stopped
by force in the Shy ber Pass, the Afghan
chief eren going so far as to s ty to the
English military commander. Major
Cttragnari, thst ho owed his life to feel-1
ings of personal friendship. For thisj
affront an apology was demanded from
the Ameer before Nor. 20, and aa it did
not then arrive war waa declared, and
tbe EngliKh troops adranced. The
defenses of the Kb ber and Peiwar
Passes yielded after slight opposition.
Theu came the Ameer's tardy reply,
dated Nor. 19, but not received until
the 30th, protesting his friendship for
the English, and his willingness to re
ceive a mission without compulsion.
J ust at tho end of the year the Russian
mission was withdrawn, the Amer fled,
and Yukoob Khan, bis son, and suc
cessor, was reported to hare surrendered
to the English. On Dec 13, the Hoase
of Commons, by a rote of 323 to 227,
rejected Mr. Whitbiead's motion cen
suring the policy of the Administration
as to Afgbsn affairs.
LOSO LIST Or ASSASSINATIONS.
Four times within as many months were
attempts made on the Urea of three of
the most popular sovereigns of Europe.
The German Emperor was twice in dan
ger. On the afternoon of May 11, aa
he was riding in the Avenue Unter der
Linden, Berlin, with the Grand Ducbeas
of Baden, E. H. M. Hoedel, a tinsmith
and a Socialist, shot at him with a re
volxer. The ball did no damage, and on
his trial Hoedel asserted that he did not
aim at the King. Bat evidence to the
contrary was overwhelming, aud, in ac
cordance with the sentence, he was be
headed on Ang. 15. The second at
tempt on Kaiser WiEielm's life was made
just three weeks later, and as he
riding through the same street,
K. 13.- HW4g, - fi iiulaa la thn
third story of the bouse No. 18, dis
charged a double-barreled gnn at him
and lodged 40 shot in his head and neck.
In spite of a deporate resistance Nobe
ling was immediately arrested, bet not
until he had succeeded in inflicting up
on himself a dangerous wound, from
which he died on Sept. 11. He was an
Internationalist," and, unlike Hoedel,
was a man of good education. The
Emperor's wounds were so severe that
he was obliged to resign the gorern-
menV into the hands of -the Crown
Prince, until he rearsamed bis powers
on Dec 5. On Oct. 20, as Alfonso,
King of Spain, was riding in the Calls
Mayor, Madrid, J. O. Moncasi. 23 years
of age, a cooper by occupation and aa
Internationalist in political belief, shot
at him, but only succeeded in slightly
wounding a soldier.. On Nor. XT, . an
old soldier unauocesaf aUy attempted .to
kill the Spanish: ex-Uiuixter of War,
Bregua, The last of the four attempts
was on the life of llumbertoj King of
Italy, and was rendered possible only
by bis command that-no guard should
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surround ' -his- carriageX aa ha 'entered
cities' in the course of. a . tour which he
was making through Italy. Hia in
tention was that the presentation of
petitions should be entirely free. On
Not. 17, aa the cairiage containing the
King, tbe Queen, and Prune Minister
Cauoli waa entering Naples in this un
protected manner, Giovanni Passsnte,
concealing a knife with a red banner,
mounted on its steps sad aimed a dead'
ly stab at Humbert's heart. Butjhe
King defended himself with his sword,
and before the blow could be repeated.
Cairoli, at tbe cost of a severe wound,
bad grappled with the murderer, and in
a moment he was la tbr easterly of th
Police He was 29 year olda cook by
trade, and, like Hoedel, Nobeling and
Moncasi, a Socialist or Internationalist,
which, it seems, may almost be under
stood to mean "King-killer." More
sensational, and eren, perhaps, scarcely
e m . m 1
ess important tnan tnese crimes, ws
the unsuccessful attempt, on Feb. 5, at
St. Petersburg, of a young woman
Vera Sassalitch by name to kill Oen.
Trepoff, Chief of the St. Petersburg
Police Her motive was personal rather
than political, but an idea of tbe detes
tation in which the Russian Police is
held may be gained from tbe fact that,
though she fired the shot im trml
daylight, as was abundantly shown by
proof snd not denied by herself, she was
acquitted ty tne jury amm tne applause
of tbe large and even brilliant audience
in tbe court-room. Two high Russian
Police officials were killed daring tbe
year Baron Hejking, of Kiev, and
Gen. Mezcntsoff, Chief of tbe Czar's
private Police. These were political
murders. This mania for assassination
extended even to Peru and Japan. In
the latter country Mr. Okubo, Minister
of the Interior, was almost hacked to
pieces on May 14 by six men armed
vrith swords. He was in reality the
power behind Uie turone, and was
somewhat known in this country as a
member of the Iwakura Embassy of
1872. His assassins were of the Sam
urai, or privileged class, and professed.
probably honestly, to hare acted from
patriotic reasons. In Lima, Peru, on
Nor. 16, Don Manuel Pardo, ex-Presi
dent of the Republic and acting Presi
dent of the Senate, waa shot by Melchor
Montoya, the Sergeant of his gnard.
The crimo was to be the first act cf a
revolution, but Montoya was deserted
by his confe'derates.
SOUS or THS FAUOTJS DEAD.
The longest Pupal reign in history
was en Jed on Feb. 7 by the death, in
hia eighty-sixth er. of Giovanni
Maria MasUi, who was proclaimed Pope
Pius IX. on June 17, 184d During the
year also died Cardinals Berardi, Fran-
chi, St. Mare, Sorso, and Cullen. Last
in the list of deceased religious rulers
is Muley-Hasean, who is succeeded by
Muler-Abaa as "Absolute Ruler of True
Believers and Saltan of Morocco." On
Jan. 9 died Vittorio Emmanuele, the
first King of united Ita'y. A too brief
royul idyl was sadly ended on June 26
by tbe death of the young, amiable,
and lovely Mercedes, cousin and wife
of Alfonso, King of Spain. The blind
and music-loving King George, of Han
over, whose reign of 15 years was ended
in 1866 by the annexation of hia king
dom by Austria, died oo June 12, and
Francis Charles Joseph, who in 1848
abdicated hia claims to the throne of
Austria in faror of his son, tbe present
Emperor, died on March 8. On Aug.
22 died Christina, a shameless, schem
ing Bourbon, who was at one time
Queen of Spain, and who will always
be responsible for all the evils flowing
from tbe disputed succession to the
Spanish throne. Tho most distinguish
ed of tbe English statesmen who hare
died daring the year is Lord John
RurseU ' (May 28). The Princess Alice,
Grand Duchess of Hesse -Darmstadt the
second daughter aud third child of
Queen Victoria, died of diptheria on
Dec 14. Death han been busy among
public men on this BidQJhe.oceaDeisov J
On March 2 he claimed Benjamin F.
Wade; on Feb. 11 died Gideon Welles.
The Nary of the United Slates Has sttsv
lost during the year Commodores Jack
son (Aug. 8), Graham (March 16), and
Spicer (Nor. 29), and Roar-Admirals
Hoff (Christmas Day) and Paulding
(Oct. 201.' Baiard Taylor. Minister to
Germany, died at Berlin on Dec 19. m
his fifty-third year. In January died
Judge Aw S. Johnson, of the United
States Circuit Court. Senator F. W.
Tobey died on May 6. On Jane 7 died
Judae W. F. Alien, and on Nor. 30
Lyman Tremaia, - lawyer, Attorney
General, and Congressman. Oen. T.
& Dak in died on Mar 13. He
was well known as a rifle shot.
G. 8. - Appleton, tbe publisher.
died ; on July 8 " John ,X Morrissey
died May ! 1. Willam M Tweed died
April 12. William Cullen Bryant died on
June 12. Finally may be mentioned
the deaths of Mews. Cottoaf Hopkins,
O'Brien, and 'Reese, fourv California
millionaires, whose nearly fabulous for
tupesC gained almost within a decade.
equally dazzle the' despondent with the
posttbilities of their future "and dis
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courage, plodding but ill paid laborert,
The rVcord of ' the oUsasters 1 of X878
la an appalling one. On Sent 3 , the
ircn screw collier ByweTiCastle crashed
into the slightly-built excursion steam
er Princess Alic as both were round
ing the bead of the Thames at Trip-
cock a Point, and sank her almost In
stantly. Exactly how many lires were
lost will nerer be known.' Seren bun
urea is a wv estimate, ana as ' tho ma
jority were women and children out' for
a day's pleasuring, the collision is cer
tainly f the most distressing affair In
marine history. The report of the
official inquiry declared that the colli
sion was caused by the bad and careless
steering of the Princess Alice. On
March 25 the Eurydiee capsized in a
squall off Dannose, Isle of Wight, as
she wss within a hair hour of her an
chorage, and carried down, in sight of
their homes, 800 lads who were being
trained for the British Nsrr. There
were but two survivors; but happily
their testimony established that tbe
disaster was due solely to tbe danger of
tbe seas. The German Nary also suf
fered a severe loss. On the last day of
May a squadron was engaged in naval
manceumng in the English Channel
bntuawunr Kurfurst struck and
sunk tbe Koenlg Wiiu, as they were
wearinsr ship to avoid a merchantman." j
Two hundred and ninety lives were
lost, including 13 officers. The rerdict
stiributed the collision to a "mtataW
of the Koenig Wiihelm's helmsman. On
tbe night of Nor. 25 tho iron bark
Moel Euain ran down and sank the
Pommcrania, one of the finest steamers
of the Hamburg-American Line. About
55 lire were lost by this collision.
Seventeen lires were lost by the colli
sion on Oct. 31. off Tuscar Light, be
tween the National Line steam-ship
Helvetia and the British cutter Fanny,
and about 150 by the B jzan tin - Bin aldo
collision in tho Dardanelles on the
night of Dee. 18. At home, there were
but few notable marine disasters. On
the 31st of January, in the same south
east gale which caused the loss of seven
lires at Manhattan Beach by sweeping
several houses intoSheepahead Bay, the
Metropolis, bound to Para, went ashore
on Currituck Beach, on the North Car
olina coast, and about 20 miles north
of the scene of the wreck of tbe ill-fated
Huron. Ninety-one lires wem
lost. Murder or manslaughter, how
erer, are the only words properly de
scriptive of the loss of 15 lires by the
explosion of the Adelphi's boilers on
the 29th of September, bear Gregory's
Point, in Long Island Sound. On the
inquest it wss shown that the boiler
needod patching within a month after
its inspection, and that it exploded
within a month after tbe repairs. The
iron of the boiler waa only one-half the
reported thickness, and near the rup
ture it waa actually only one-thirty-
second of an ineh thick. Twenty lives
were lost by the collision , on Dee. 1,
between tbe Mississippi rirer steamers
Cotton Valley and Charles Morgan; and
36 by the foundering, on Deo. 10, of
the Emily B. Souder, on her trip from
New York City to Kingston, Jamaica.
A shocking disaster, which cannot be
called an accident, was tbe collision
on Oct. 8 of an excursion train on the
Old Colony Railroad with a freight
train, which was being switched. Twen-
iwo persons were killed, and 120 were
wounded. The inquest found the con
ductors of both trains and the engineer
of one guilty of negligence, and, as one
conductor testified tht he was switch
ing bis train because he "supposed"
tbe excursion train had passed. . and.
when he saw it spproaching, sent out
no signals because he "supposed' the
engineer had doue so, he was held and
indicted, but has not yet been punish
ed, for manslaughter.. The accident is
estimated to cost the railroad company
3325,000. Another engineer, employed
by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and St.
but who "supposed" ha had time to go
on, killed 15 pen ens by dashing bis
train in toanotner on Aug. T. Tb lit
of railroad accidents may be closed by
mentioning the loss of 14 : lives by . the
breaking, under an excursion .. train, of
the bridge orer tae Farmington. Rirer,
on the line of tho Connecticut Western,
Railroad. ' The accident occurred on
Jan, 18, and it is not yet certain whe
ther the bridge broke because it was not
originally strong enough or because it
bad been suffered to. decay, or whether
the accident was not caused by. train
wreckers. " An explosion of fire-damp
in tbe Abercorn Colliery, South Wales,
on Sept. ! 11. caused. 251 deatha. Oa
Oct. 11 the audience of i the Colosseum
Theatre, Liverpool Eng.), in their mad
rush for escape from this ' bullduig at
a! careless or malicious, but, entirely
groundless, alarm of fire trampled 37 of
thear number to death. i-d ,
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OTHXXCEXJCXS OTTa XXAJL
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r On Oct. 14, the jury In the Jesse Bil
lings murder ease declared tht they
were unable to agree, and were. tdis
charged.vThey stood II to 1 fur acquit-
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tel. Mrs. Binings was shot in the bead
through the window of her sitting-room,
in Northumberland! on the ereniog of
Juno 4. On June L 'Rer. O. B.'Voe-
burgh, Pastor of the Madison . Arenas
Baptist Church, Jersey City, was acquit
ted of attempting to poison' bis wife.
He endesTored to resume his profession
si position but resigned in a few weeks;
Rer. H. H. Hayden Pastor of the
Methodist Church of Madison, : Conn. ,
is another clergyman who has , fallen
under 'suspicion of taking life, the al
leged motire In his esse being his desire
to conceal his relations with" lUrf E.
StannardV who was found in a lot near
her father's, boose, la the town
with her throat cut and ber brains dash
ed ost with a stone. MX Haydan was
"acquitted" in his examination before
Justice Wilcox, but was subsequently
indicted, and remains untried. In
series of confessions, extending through
the first days of Norembwr, W. W. Bish
op, of Norwich, alleged that he poison
ed his wife, who died in February, and
that Mrs. C. H. Cobb, Jr. , poisoned her
husband, who died in June, in order
that these tiring obs taeles to the grati
fioation of their illegal lore might bo
removed. He brsrely laid the chief
guilt on Mrs. Cobb, but their respective
crimes bsrc not yet been legally passed
upua. Tk third Connecticut case in
tne JulliDg at Bridgeport of
alauering jacx, . . . ,
ed to death by Mrs. Alexander am
Frank E. Baasett in order that they
might sell bis body for dissection. She
was convicted and sentenced to prison
for life, but Bassett remains untried.
uo jury s xfeojamin Hunter was con
victed of having killed on Jan. 23 J. M.
Armstrong, the alleged motire being to
procure possession of $26,000 insurance
on Armstrongs life, tbe policies for
which stood in Hunter's faror. Hunter's
appeal is still pending. On tbe 1st day
of August R. H. Smith, a Police officer,
of Jersey City, was found beaten to
death in bed. His wife declared that
be bad been killed by ber .side without
her knowledge, bat the rerdict on the
inquest charged ber with the crime, and
she now lies in jail awaiting trial, On
Dec 18 John Kehoe, tbe king of the
Moliie Maguires. waa hanged for the
murder of F. W. S. Langdon, in 1872.
The two most notable robberies of
the year of erer $3,000,000 in securi
ties and cash from the Manhattan Sav
ings institution on Sunday, Oct. 27.
aud of A. T. Stewart's body from its
rault in SL Mark's grareyard on Nor.
7 are still so fresh in tbe public memory
that it is unnecessary to gire any further
details about them. On June 10 a gasg
of fire armed men intimidated the pas
sengers on a Third-avenue car, including
several uniformed soldiers, taking from
Sir. Isdetra a bag containing the money
which he had received from the railroad
conductors at Harlem, and which he
waa taking to the company's depot. Or.
Aug. 3 C. H.Stone, cashier of J.P.Hale's
piano factory, was robbed in the streets,
in broad daylight, of money which he
had drawn for the operatives wages.
Tho amounts stolen in these two eases
were small, out tbe robberies
unique in their boldness.
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OTHXB TmsaS W02THT OF nwinram
The yellow fever epidemic of the year
was one of the worst in history. Al
though tbe point is disputed, it seems
probable - thai it was introduced into
New Orleans on the Souder, and it
was certainly carried up the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers by the tug John Port
er, which left New Orleans on July 25.
In New Orleans there were 526 deaths
in the first week of September; in Mem
phis, in the second week, there were
6S7 deaths. Smaller towns, notably
Grenada and Holly Springs (Miss.),
were depopulated. The total number
of eases throughout the Southern States
was shout 100,000, and pf deaths, 20,000.
The epidemio is now being inrestigated
in its scientifie aspects by committees
from each House of Congress, by repre-
..mk.tmm. V Ill I . mi .m m ,. . 3
by a commission, hesded by Dr. S M.
Bemias, and appointed by Surgeon
C m mm Wnod worth..ai the suggestion -of
the Public Health Association. That
body , warmly discussed a report of the
commission's progress at its sessions on
Nor. 13, 20. 2L'a4 22. ' ,,
Onr Feb. 11,. tbe , notoooos. woman,
Ann.Lohmaa,' generally known as Mme.
Rest ell. Was arrested by Anthony Corn
stock, and on April I she r ended her
career by cutting her - throat with a
oarriog-kaife in a bath-tab in her
Fiftb-srenue residence, New York City,
Ou Nor; 10 ix bbtols and 20 cottages
were, burned at Cape May,N. J., in
volving a loss of $400,000. h I u . .
On March 25, a - firs at Fourth and
Archj streets, ' PhfladelpUadestroyed
property, worth 1,000, 0WX. On Jane fi
Colgate's, factory,- in Jersey 1 City, wss
damaged ? by fire ' to ; tho amount.' of
$300,000. ; , -'-
' On Ang. 9,' a tornado' swept .through
WaXUngford, Conn., "destroying $150,
000 worth of property, aud injuring up-'
Ward of 100 persons, of whom" 22 vers J
killed outright. pa June I, si scarcely
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One copy, one year,. ,,$1.50 x
M ,sixmonths,.,..,,... .80
, threemottbs;:;.....:" ,50
Substrfptton invariably in advance.
ii axes oi?AnynirrisiNco
l equate, one insertion, . . , J,L3 "
i column, six months, 13.C0 Is
Ho i twelve months, j!2.n V
yi column, six months, ......... UC
do- 4. , twelro month-: . ; . . tiC"",
1 clurna,six months, i .7 tx iL
o?do -twlre oathsiU'.'JU,4
Court adrertisements six weeks. . 8 XX -Special
notices and adrertisemenissa.,,
local column 10 cenU a lineT'Y! J f s
j . aa. sLsasJASA.aSB3 A .
less 'destruotfre7 eytlone fTisiteaiami
mond. Mo. .tat.bul
OnOct, Sthe&iyot GJasowTJank -failed,
with : liabiliUss of, $50,O0O0OV?
and a deficit of $31,954,915. The bank ioX
had 65,000 depositurs, but thsy-win
probably sll le repaid in full by the T
operation of ; the Scotch 'Law, mal4BX;!A,
sbarebolderarin Sooteh- banka-liablo
for tha bank's debU to an unlimited T
extent Consequently, i is ,the-.i
shareholders who will . suffer, most V
will be financially ruined. r One . hua-Q
dred and fifty firms and two ba&xaw
the West of England and South Wales
District and the Caledenfaa lave ai-
ready snspended. Tbe case of the) Cale-. .
dosian Bank Is onerof'peeuSaibard
ship. f It owned four atlOO shares Of the
OUsgow Bank, npon which it estimsferl
its share of "calU" to be 8,000, ., That.'
sum wss tendered to the Glasgow liquid
dators, who refused to return a", receipt
in full. An offer of the Caledonian's
paid-up capital, or 150,000, was receiv
ed by the answer that it would be ap
plied "on account," but that a release
from all demands npon those four 100 "
shares would aot be girea nnliiss tho
managers of the Caledonian Bank,
would pay to ths liquidators its whole
nominal capital of 600,000. Then the
Caledonian Bank failed, although its .
own affairs were upon the soundest
basis.
JUdrlDg am ymr, wrnr iimwnmn iisi
horses rose into sodden prominence. At '
Cleveland, Barns trotted a mile in 2.14,
st Milsraukee Hopeful trotted a mile in
2:1U, and at Hartford Edwin Forrest
oorered a mile's length in 2:141. sad a
half-mile in 1:051. The two most no
table pedestrian events of the yesr were
O'Leary's walk in London of 520 miles
and two laps in 13 hours and 10
minutes, beginning on March 28, and
"Sport's" or Peter Napoleon Caaapeca'e
tramp, nnequaled, if au then tie, of 521
miles and 51 feet in 141 houia and 40-
minutes, beginning on Nor. IL This
walk was ai Bridgeport, Conn., but
great doubt is thrown upon the record
by "Sport's," greatly inferior perfor
mance in bis match against O Lea ry in '
New York City in Christmas week. Ou
Oct 1, at the Columbia Rifle Range, J.
M. T. Partello make tbe best kg-range
score on record, 2i 4 out of a possible
225. On July 4 and 5 occurred the.
Henley Regatta, when,' the phenomenal"
Shewsdcamette crew front who'jla " so" '
much was expected, -broke ' down -under
tne strain of a raoe, wnich while it
lasted, waa the hardest ewer sands i oa .
the Henley course, and tbe CoJumbia
College crew woo, in 8:41, the only boat-'
race erer gained in England by aa
Amerioaa crew, and brought as a trophy "-'
to the United States, the Yiaitora'
Challenge Cup;
The Paris Expoaitioo opened on May '
1 and dosed on Nor. 10. , The total re.
ceipU were 12,653,7 francs.- Seren t
hundred snd fifty, prizes were awarded'
to Americans. This number of prises is
larger, proportionally, than the awards to
any other nation, and exoeeds the total
number of American exhibitors at lbs
Paria Exposition of 1857 ox tbe Yioo&av
Exposition of 1873.
During the- Summer .months Idaho
waa ravaged by a band of 2,000 Bannock,
Piute, and Klamath Indians, of whom '
about 700 were warriors, snd who seem
to nwYe been fairly starred into hostility. " "
The campaign against them bated about '
90 days. On Sept. 9 a baad of I907
Cheyenne warriors .marched, northward
through Kansas, marking their way by X
robbery and murders. kTbey wereaesrl,, .
aucapiurea.py tneend of October,-but
not uulil they had killed some 40 set-;"'
tiers with carbine rifles Which they lad'. '
captured at the Caster niassscre, and X
which they had been permitted to keep.'!.
Nearly erery farm eatt'be' impTored-
in some manner by drainage. ' The
Wistern country has been seixrmhr a'
draining ferec- .This is aa intermittent.; y&i
fyasMV. and 1 "int -ntrii mmminM, mllm X
ai is notewonuy utat a ocarenuon or
tile-makers was reesatry held in llndhvt.j
na, at which all thsr actual and .many., , ... , ,,
of the imaginary benefits' of thofough " i' -Oral
u iug rr aliy -discussed; of vl . ,t
course, with much f error. It is atrsth, " to
that tile-draining lands' bften benefits "
the tile-makers mors than the- f jraierano;iux
Expenditures should be thoroughly we4t,st, ...
thought over before they are made' ami 1
the luoney irreoorwajblr spent. Boorea-ti -
of farms mayt bo drained, at too great ;ar u (Tt
cost,! rionie wet lands m.y U3i5ailft T '
pwfecUy wall without -a siugle tila,' and -k'
elthoagu tbe jols-mskers xoay .t4aw.s4-.-7!-sill
rantage of a popular excitexneut- and -,
encourage it, yet thoso who bay-iher3'0"
tiles may at least take tbeirstere of the
discnsswp; and look, well into, . tb ! rust- lu I'
ter betore thy spend their money.
I y li lit
ProL Ebeimkrtarand Dr. r3chwnah '
finoVtha tha air ..within, as exllsiraJ1Jxaii,
twrws ovukuus is oummer auaost aoui
the portiosof carboaie- acid In-' tbe air"
over the -open coantryj .On the otbsc U.imm
handv ' fortatt soil is in Summer rery 4
much poorer U-earbonio1 acid L thaaT!P
the ' aou of .the t open.; fialdsv and the 3 jsr .d
amount in the loiter rises with toleration ...
of teuiperature much more rapidly than,
does that in tLelomafcuIiUCuiiaa 'jiii
of carlxu in the soil seoms to be krw, as; r.tr
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