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Cambridge News (Newspaper) - October 4, 1877, Cambridge, Ohio Published every thursday a at terms of subscription. For one year if paid within Tho year. .$2 of if not paid until ofter the year expires. 2 50 no paper discontinued until All the arrearage Ere paid except at the option of the publisher. A very Large circulation. Vol. . 17. Cambridge Ohio thursday october 4, 1877. $2.00 per annul Spack. 8 in. 6 in. I year one Quarter column. $12 50 17 50 20 of 40 of 1ft 7 Tun no one third column. 25 of 40 of 31 50, 50 of 60 of too 08 Jne half column. Jne col Nam. Ten cents per line for local notices first insertion and five elite per line each subsequent insertion ten cents per line Tor special notices first insertion. And 3%c. Per line each subsequent insertion. Ii Arriage and death notices free. Aries five cents per cards. We ii in. ,.�?.�� a a a a ii i a ii., ii zzh38s a. Roof. M. . Cooper a Jefferson dentists Cambridge Ohio. $5f�?oofflce on West Market Street Over Shafter a Beymer a St Are. Teeth extracted without pal the use of nitrous oxide or laughing Gas. Mar4-�?T75-tf Thompson s. Crow a proprietor of Farmers hotel on Mill Street one Square South of win. Rainey amp songs dry goods store. May 3d, �?T77-Tfj. G. Ferbrache livery and Sale stable in the rear of times building. 3t"pfttronago solicited. Accommodations Good. Of Cambridge House formerly Starr hotel Joseph Morton proprietor West Side Public Square Cambridge Ohio. New pleasant and convenient. Of 29-78exchange hotel formerly toe Warner House Cal d w e l a Ohio. Thomas Lloyd proprietor. This la use has been newly refitted and refurnished. Thorough attention will Given to the Accomma Adon and Comfort of guests. May 24, 1877-tf. New factory. William a. Carr Fine Boot and shoe maker Cambridge. Ohio. 5f�?�shop in Rainey a building on Mill St making Aud repairing sewed work a specially jy22-Tfj. Woodford livery feed and Sale stable on Pine Street North of main. Persons arriving on the cars or any others taken to All Points of Guernsey county on the shortest notice. Ap22-�?T75-tf j. I. Taylor. T. H. Anderson Taylor amp Anderson attorneys at Law feign to office adjoining the Taylor Block. We. M. Siens attorney at Law and notary Public. Will practice in Guernsey and adjoining counties collections promptly attended to. Post office address Cambridge Ohio. June 15-74__t. O. Mann Carpenter and Joiner Cumberland Ohio. Get persons wishing work in this line will promptly accommodated calling on or addressing the above named. June 15-74 d. K. Kyle Marble and Granite works Cambridge Ohio. Keeps on hand a Fine lot of the celebrated red and Gray scotch Granite monuments at the lowest prices. Italian and american Marble monuments of the Best style and Quality. Marble and slate mantles._may3-75-Tfat Mackey Sart gallery Cambridge. A specially is made of Fine photographs. Also copying and enlarging old pictures and finishing them in India Ink water and Oil colors. Oct 29-74a. F. Hubert Boot and shoe manufacturer and dealer in leather Siim i findings. Work put up to order and warranted. Two doors a ast of tobacco factory main St., april 19, 1877. Cambridge . Sarah Jane Moss is prepared to clean and co lob clothing for ladies and gentlemen braid hair and make switches to order. Combines straightened. Janl�?T76 Ambridge o. Or. T. Sweet dentist Cumberland Ohio. Teeth extracted without pain the use of a a harmless dec. 28, 1876-tf Lambert tii0ma8. E. Harper Jeppi. Lambert Thomas a co.,product Aud Wool commission merchants 139 North water Street and 146 Delaware wharf Philadelphia a. June 15-7kirk House formerly Grant House Corner of Market and fourth Street. W. A. S. M. Kirk proprietors june 15-74 Zanesville . W. Lippincott proprietor of the Beecher House Cor. Broadway and South streets Quaker City Ohio. This is one of the Best arranged houses in Eastern Ohio. Guests will receive every attention necessary to their Comfort. April 12, �?T77-tf Fairview House. Fairview Ohio. J. F. Dubois proprietor. This House is newly fitted up and Kent in modern style. Good stabling. May 18-Tfmccollum a Mckinney Are prepared to attend to All the wants of their customers in their line of making and repairing wagons of All sizes and patterns. They also invite attention to the facilities for szzoh3 ing and the other thousand and one thing made at the blacksmiths shop. _ Mccollum a Mckinney mar23- 75-tf South end Mill Street news of tue week. Washington. Secretary Sherman denies that he will a candidate for senator from Ohio. The accounts of the per cent loan were closed on the 23d. The whole amount is $200,000,000. The Treasury department had upon the Union Pacific Railroad train recently robbed in Wyoming 300,000 ounces of Silver Bullion. This was in Large bars and so heavy that the robbers were unable to carry it with them and not an ounce was lost. During september the additional circulation of National Bank notes issued will not less than $1,000,000, and it is thought a much larger amount will issued during october and november for the purpose of supplying Banks with the currency necessary for the movement of the crops. President Hayes and party arrived in Washington on the evening of the 25th. The Par-13�?T were enthusiastically received at Charlottesville where speeches were delivered the president Evarts and key. The trip to Richmond is postponed until next month. The president expresses himself As highly pleased with his Southern trip and believes a a the Era of Good feeling Between the North and South is Alex. Ii. Stephens is in Washington advocating the appointment of Herschel v. Johnson to the vacancy on the supreme court Bench. Of the models burned in the Patent office fire 17,000 were those on which no Patent had been granted. A Telegram received at the state department on the 26th from an official source in Yeddo says the rebellion in Japan is ended. The chief rebels Sago Murata and Kirino committed suicide on the 24th inst. President Hayes received delegations of Sioux and Arapahoe indians on the 27th ult. They asked for cattle wagons farming implements and schools so they might become civilized and live like Whites. Washington officials regard the new York Republican platform As significant in indicating the line of policy senator Conkling intends to pursue. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Mccormick will remain in the department through the extra session of Congress. The president has dismissed the charges against gov. Axtell of new Mexico As vague and unsupported proof. There were $356,914,937 Legal tenders outstanding on the 28th ult. The East. Six steamers which sailed from new York for Europe on the 22d took out 250,000 bushels of Grain and Large shipments of butter cheese Etc. A package containing Bonds stocks Etc., estimated at $200,000 was stolen on the 22d from the Safe of the first National Bank of Courtland n. The loss was not discovered until the 24th. The securities were the property of private parties. Two seamen died in the new York quarantine Hospital on the 25th of yellow fever. Three thousand of the Lehigh it Wilkes Barre Coal company a miners have accepted the offer of to percent Advance and resumed work. Three trunks containing $50,000 in securities have mysteriously disappeared from the Cambridge port mass National Bank. The miners of the Pennsylvania Coal company have indefinitely postponed resumption on the company a terms. John s. Morton president F. Stokes Secretary and Samuel p. Huhn treasurer of the Market Street railway Philadelphia and George Vickers private Secretary of Morton were arrested on the 26th, on the charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud the company. The arrests were made at the instigation of the new president and Board of directors. Warrants Are out for the arrest of others. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railroad was held at new York on the 26th. The report for the year ending sept. I shows that the earnings exceeded the expenses $392,6119. Charles Wright of Pennsylvania was elected president. The charter Oak life insurance company directors ask policy holders to release 40 per cent. Of the Reserve liabilities. The company will turned Over to a receiver if they refuse. Base bail on the 27th ult Boston 13, Hartford 2 Louisville 9, Chicago 8�?ten innings. Pierson the commander of the state troops at Pittsburgh during the late riot has been arrested on the charge of murder. It is claimed that the general gave the troops the order to fire on the crowd and one Nicholas Stoppel was killed that fire. Gen. Pierson was admitted to bail in $10,000. The Barnstable mass savings Bank has closed. It is stated that depositors will paid in full. The Chromo establishment of Prang amp co. In Boston was burned on the 27th ult. Loss $100,000. West and Soeth. There were five deaths from yellow fever at Fernandina fla., on the 22d, including two Sisters of mercy. A vessel which has arrived from the Arctic Ocean reports that of the seventy men left on the abandoned whaling Fleet Only two have been saved. The Fidelity savings Bank of Chicago suspended business on the 24th and a receiver was appointed. Its Deposit liabilities Are $1,370,000 and its assets As stated the Bank officers $1,175,000. Spencer Guild and Bulkley officers of the defunct state savings institution of Chicago have been indicted for the embezzlement of $700,000 from the Bank. Their whereabouts is unknown. Base Ball on the 24th Cincinnati 5, St. Louis i. The presidential party were at Lynchburg va., on the 24th, and had a cordial reception. Chaplain Collins u. S. A., who reached Portland ore., from Alaska on the 24th, brings information of a deplorable state of affairs at Sitka since the withdrawal of the troops. He says there is not a semblance of Law either civil military or National and no Power whatever to restrain the Lawless element. There Are not More than fifteen Whites and to oppose them Are several Hundred indians. These latter get drunk and swagger about town Day Aud right and have no respect for the rights of the Whites who live in fear of their lives. Business is completely paralysed and the settlers will abandon the country unless the government speedily offers Protection. Forty new cases of yellow fever and one death were reported at Fernandina fla., on the 24th. On the 25th Anderson Shi filet was executed at the jail in Harrodsburg va., for the murder of d. G. Lawson. He asserted his innocence of actual murder on the scaffold hut acknowledged that he knew Lawson was to murdered. When the trap fell the rope broke letting Shefflet fall to the ground. At the second attempt he strangled to death his neck not being broken the fail. Base Ball on the 25th Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 4. Three deaths from yellow fever and Twenty new cases were reported at Fernandina on the 25th. The receiver of the merchants Farmers amp mechanics savings Bank of Chicago had up to the 25th found As the assets of the con foreign intelligence. The elections in France will held oct. 14, and the session of the Chambers is called for nov. 7. Gambetta a second trial occurred on the 22d, and the sentence pronounced at the first trial was confirmed. Levender the famous astronomer is dead. India advices of the 24th say the tide of the great calamity has been turned but vast numbers of those who survived actual famine must succumb from their enfeebled condition. Rain has fallen and drops Are making rapid Progress. Another rebellion is announced in san Domingo. Many bloody encounters have taken place Between the government troops and the revolutionists the former being beaten badly. The whole Republic is in a state of excitement. The dutch budget shows a deficit of $2,-750,000. A French Telegram says intense bitterness exists Between the political parties in Remote provincial districts. They resemble two hostile nations confronting each other and ready to come to blows. The distribution or placarding of Thierse posthumous address is interdicted. An italian gunboat has arrived at Volo to inquire into the misdeeds of the Bushi a souks. A London Telegram says that with two exceptions the russian ministers Are in favor of peace negotiations. Cern Only $62 in Cali and some $20,000 Worth of encumbered real estate. The annual sessions of the National agricultural Congress and the american Public health association commenced at Chicago on the 25th. Sidney Myers president of the merchants Farmers and mechanics savings Bank of Chicago which suspended recently has been indicted the grand jury for embezzlement of $200,000, and w As lodged in jail in default of $200,000 bail. The grand jury also indicted the officers of the defunct Protection life insurance company on the charge of defrauding its policy holders. Or. Elisha Harris of new York is president of the american health association. Nat. Bierce was taken from the Carrollton Ala jail a on the night of the 26th ult. And lynched. He was implicated in killing two men last August. On the 27th ult. Five new cases of yellow fever were reported at Fernandina and no deaths. The worst is believed to Over if the people do not return until after the first Frost. Engineer Wilson fireman Mccrea and brakeman Mccormick were killed and seven others wounded the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive on the Louisville amp Nashville Road at Rocky Hill outline 27th ult. Sydney Myers the alleged embezzling president of the merchants Etc., savings Bank of Chicago gave bail on the 27th Aud the court appointed counsel to defend him. The agricultural Congress elected William Flagg president for the ensuing year. On the night of the 27th ult. Eight children lost their lives the burning of a farmhouse at St. Gregorie can. Five were burned to death and three suffocated. Base Ball on the 28th Uit Chicago 5, Cincinnati 5 Louisville 3, St. Louis 2. The demurrer of the government to defendants answer in the Mckee ease was overruled Justice Miller in the u. S. Court at St. Louis on the 28th ult., and the Case therefore Falls. Political notes. Gen. Mcclellan has accepted the democratic nomination for governor of new Jersey. The state Republican convention of new Jersey was held at Trenton on the 25th. Gen. Kilpatrick presided. William a. Newell was nominated for governor. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the efforts of the democrats to throw discredit upon the electoral tribunal As an exhibition of Folly and bad Faith recognizing the earnestness Aud sincerity with we High president Hayes is Labouring to promote reconciliation and to secure efficiency and Economy and demanding the adoption of All measures necessary to insure specie resumption at a Date not later than the time set Law. The National prohibition convention met in new York on the 26th. Rev. Or. Joseph Cummings presided. The Wisconsin democratic state convention was held at fond do Lac on the 26th. James a. Mallory was nominated for governor and r. E. Davis for lieutenant governor. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the will of the people was Defeated in the late presidential election fraud and chicanery opposition to subsidies and monopolies that Silver re monetized and the resumption act repealed and that the government furnish its own notes in the place of National Bank notes favouring such legislation As will prevent pooling combinations of corporations from extorting exorbitant rates to Jake watered Stock yield productive interest the equalization of the pay of soldiers of the late War and the reduction of National and state expenses. The Republican state convention of new York Asl fumbled at Rochester on the 26th. Naval officer Cornell of new York called the delegates to order. Senator Conkling was elected permanent president but he declined to act and t. Platt wa3 chosen the resolutions adopted express the Hope that the presidents action in relation to the Southern states May result in peace Tranquillity and Justice insist on purity frugality and efficiency in the Public service that no official or officeholder should he subject to political or partisan assessment or to interference in anyway with his political rights or action commend legislation making officers secure in a limited fixed tenure and subject to removal Only As officers under the state Laws Are removable in new York on charges to regularly and openly preferred and adjudged approve the specie Resura Tion act disapprove of appropriations for works of a local or sectional character arraign the democratic party for false pretences for perpetuating existing abuses and for slavish subservience to the most corrupt and dangerous influences and pledge the Republican party to Economy and Reform. George w. Curtis offered a substitute for the Resolution in regard to the presidents action recognizing his patriotism and commending his efforts for the permanent pacification of the South and for a correction of the evils and abuses of the civil service in which the president May rely upon the cordial support of the country. Senator Conkling opposed the substitute and it was rejected the original resolutions being adopted�?295 to 109. Adjourned to the 27th. The new York Republican convention on the 27th ult. Nominated for Secretary of state j. Churchill comptroller Sylvester state treasurer w. L. Bostwick attorney general g. Tremaine state Engineer ii. Soule. Hon. William Pinkney Whyte is the democratic nominee for comptroller of state in Maryland. The resolutions adopted the Republican convention of Minnesota on the 27th ult. Approve the presidents Southern Aud civil service policies and favored Early resumption of specie payment and re monetization of Silver. The present state officers were renominated. The new York City newspapers on the 27th ult. Generally condemned the action of senator Conkling in the state Republican convention. Gen. Grant was received at Sheffield on the 26tli the mayor and corporation. A congratulatory address was presented to him the chamber of Commerce to which he briefly replied. A violent earthquake took place at Sabija Bolivia on the 23d ult. Russia insists on Servia speedily finishing the work of mobilization and complains that Servian hesitation enabled the turks to relieve Plevna. The hungarian policy As announced is to protect the interests of that country without War if possible but at the same time protect them in every contingency. Austria will preserve strict neutrality. Yellow fever prevails at Santa Cruz. Sex president Grant and party were at Stratford on Avon on the 28th ult., and had a Brilliant reception. They visited Shakespeare a Birthplace and other places of interest. A Large Quantity of munitions of War have been seized the government at the custom House in Perth. Lierra has resigned and been succeeded Gen. Guardi a As president of Costa Rico. Wah notes. The turkish army at Plevna has been reinforced and fully provisioned. It is stated that the russian and romanian losses before Plevna exceed 25,000 killed and wounded. Under cover of the guns of Silistria a turkish detachment has occupied a natural stronghold on romanian territory. The turkish troops at or Chanie Are to Cut to Plevna. The russian army before Plevna has been reinforced. A constantinople dispatch of the 26th says Osman Pasha s position is nov belie cd to secure and the impression is that the russians and romanians Are gradually withdrawing from the attempt against Plevna. Goransky has surrendered to the montenegrin. Mehemet a is reported retreating to his former position on the Kara Lorn. The romanian army suffered severely in an attack on the second Rivica redoubt on the 26th. The montenegrin occupy Piva and have captured fort Mrkvica. A correspondent at russian Headquarters telegraphs that the discontent and discouragement Are great in the russian army. The officers regard Success As nearly hopeless. Very deep Snow is reported at the foot of the Balkans. According to a London dispatch of the 28th ult. The russian staff officers in front of Plevna express Confidence that the place will fall into their hands. The roads Are almost impassable in the Dobro Desha on account of Rains. Considerable sickness is reported in the russian armies. Russia demands that the serbians shall enter the Field when a Success at Plevna is obtained. Train bombers killed. Kansas City mo., sept. 27. A Buffalo station Kau special gives the particulars of the capture and killing of two Union Pacific express robbers yesterday and the recovery of $20,000 in Gold. About nine of clock two men Riding jaded horses and leading a heavily loaded Pony came into the station and stopped for refreshments. The station agents suspicion was aroused noticing the name of Joel Collins on an envelope in the pocket of one of the men which was exposed in drawing his handkerchief. It happened that Sherif Beardsley of Ellis county and a squad of soldiers on the watch for the robbers were encamped in a Ravine near and As soon As the men left the agent notified the sheriff who mounted his men and soon overtook the robbers. They told him he was mistaken in the men that they were Texas cattle men returning Home. The sheriff asked them to return to the station we hich they cheerfully agreed to do. They had gone Only a Short distance when Collins suddenly turned and said to his companions a Elf we have to die let us do it both attempted to draw revolvers but the sheriffs posse was too Quick for them and fired killing both men instantly. The Gold was sewed up in the legs of a pair of pantaloons and consists of Twenty Dollar pieces of the mint of 1877. The bodies were taken to Ellis where an inquest we ill held. There were no papers on their bodies except a Roll of poetry dedicated to Collins a Young lady and which he seemed to prize highly. The name of the other Man is not Given. Collins is said to from Dallas tex., and to of a highly respectable family. Sheriff Beardsley and citizens Are in hot Pursuit of the remainder of the gang. The indians. Chicago sept. 22. The following has been received fort Ellis mont., sept. 22. A Sturgis we rites under Date muscle Shell 16th, that in the fight of the 13th, 14th and 15th Twenty dead warriors were found. He believes that More were killed. Ile estimates the wounded at sixty. His own loss we As French Nicholson and Gresham wounded slightly four soldiers killed and twelve wounded several scouts were killed and wounded. Niue Hundred horses were dropped the Hostiles up to the 16th inst. Ile had dropped Many of his own horses. The command had been living four Days on mule meat. The crows Are returning to the Agency and say that Sturgis sent them in telling them not to fight the Nez Perces any More because the soldiers were not to fight them longer. The crows say that Sturgis and the Nez Perces Camp were Only eight Miles apart and it May that they have surrendered. This report needs confirmation. Nothing from Howard since my last. Benham commanding. St. Paul sept. 28. Indian superintendent Kimball having ordered father Torsein a Catholic missionary to leave the White Earth Agency on account of a violation of the Agency rules in putting orphan children in his school the priest took Refuge in the Church rang the Bell to summon the indians Friendly to him and with them is now holding the Church in armed resistance to the authority Kimball. The indians Are considerably excited and consequently Kimball telegraphed to fort Snelling for Aid on the 2gth, and probably received reinforcements yesterday. The indians Are not aggressive but watchful and suspicious. They have other minor grievances which will probably necessitate troops remaining in the Vicinity of White Earth for some time. A an old married woman is running against a Young girl for county superintendent of schools in Shasta county California and Shasta Fly around and yell to get the men to listen to a word she says and it is thought that even her of n husband is going to vote for the opposition candidate. A the most unexpected savings Bank failure would to a failure to fail. Burning of the Patent in ton. Office at Wash Washington sept. 24. The upper half of the Patent office was destroyed fire to Day. The fire originated it is supposed from spontaneous combustion among a lot of no patented chemical material stored in the attic. The lower half of the building is uninjured except water. A the building is two blocks Long and a Little Over a Block wide covering a surface of about four acres. It was Only completed last year although Twenty years or More have passed since the building was ready for occupancy. It is four stories in height of pure grecian doric architecture and built of Granite. Its Cost was $2,700,000. Three floors Are devoted to offices and include 191 rooms which Are occupied the Secretary of the Interior and his subordinates of the Patent Laud and Indian bureaus of the Interior department. The entire upper Story of the building we As devoted to a Model museum we Here were exhibited the models of every invention that has been patented for fifty years and models of Many inventions whose letters Patent Date Back much longer ago. The room consisted of four magnificent corridors two Over 400 feet Long and two More about 325 feet Long. These Halls were from sixty to eighty feet in Width and were divided into promenades Long lines of handsome exhibition cases of Black Walnut and Glass. Balconies were erected from either Wall which were also filled with similar cases. In these cases were contained about 400,000 models Many of them of great Beauty and some of rare value. This was the finest collection of models in the world in fact the Only collection of any magnitude. Their intrinsic value could not named. Among other models which Are supposed to destroyed were the original Ohio news items. A tarty of eight coloured men became involved in a quarrel at Cincinnati on the night of the 24th. Pistols were freely used and four of them were wounded one Charles Blackston fatally the Tri state fair opened in Toledo on the 24th we Ith every Prospect of sue Cess. The attendance Wras Good for a first Day and the weather was All that could have been desired. The fall term of the Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware commenced with about 150 students. Arout one of clock on the evening of the 24th a fire broke out in marshes Cigar factory at Coshocton and before it could extinguished five buildings were destroyed. The loss on buildings will aggregate about $40,000 and $2,000 on contents on which there is about $8,000 insurance. An old negro Man the name of James Baumser was instantly killed at Ripley on the 22d. He and a Young coloured Man named Welch had a difficulty when Welch shoved him and he fell his head striking a Box. F a a since the first appearance of the cattle disease in the neighbourhood of Cleveland 139 cows have died. The general theory held is that the disease is a fever of some kind and is communicated to native cattle Texas steers brought there to slaughtered Many of which Are pastured in the surrounding country for a time. The fever is very contagious. The veterans of the mexican War of the state of Ohio held a reunion at the soldiers Home at Dayton on the 25th. Members were present from All parts of the state. The next meeting is to held in Columbus feb. 22, 1878. A fire in the Penitentiary at Columbus on the night of the 25th partially destroyed the hollow Ware shop of a. G. Patten and the car wheel shops of Gill amp Blaine. The loss of the former was about $8,000, Aud Gill amp Blaines loss was about $6,000. The state loses $4,000 on the building. President i. W. Andrews has been connected with Marietta College since 1838�?until 1855 As professor of mathematics and since then As president. The codifying commission will have three quarters of its we Ork ready to submit to the legislature when it convenes in january. Milton l. Clark the workingmen Greenback candidate for supreme judge has declined the nomination. It w As reported on the 24th that a. Shaw county treasurer of Defiance county was Short in his accounts Between $7,000 and $20,000. The state auditor appointed a special inspector to examine his accounts. Twenty five thousand people we Ere in attendance on the Tri state fair at Toledo on the 26th. About fifty delegates we Ere present at the eleventh annual convention of the Young menus Christian association at Columbus on the 27th ult. Ii. Thane Miller of Cincinnati presided. Twenty thousand persons were present at the Southern Ohio fair on the 27th Ultimo. The Young menus Christian association convention at Columbus on the 28th ult. Elected officers for the ensuing year As follows president ii. Thane Miller Cincinnati vice presidents w. A. A Bony Columbus w. Tisdell Painesville John Dodds Dayton secretaries Charles h. Hall of Columbus and j. E. Studebaker of Springfield. The report of the executive committee states that great difficulty was experienced in raising Money for their work Many who subscribed utterly refusing to pay their subscription. Notwithstanding these backed raw a the society is now out of debt and has $150 in the Treasury. There Are seventy associations in Ohio fifty five of which make annual reports eleven new associations were formed during the year number of members reported forty four associations 4,415 expenses of Twenty nine associations $20,672 conversions 457. The Why is becoming Clear for a full disclosure of All the facts connected with the robbery of the treasurer of a Glaize county. Myers failure on the 25th to give Bonds in the sum of $25,000 forced him to jail and finally to confession implicating j. T. Smith county auditor As the person who persuasion induced Myers to become a party for the purpose of covering up a Deal cation Myers allowing Smith to bind and gag him and Rob the Safe of what Money was remaining. From Myers confession it appears that some months ago while temporarily absent from his office his Safe w As robbed of some $7,000. This fact remained a secret for a while then a confidant was made of Smith who assured Myers that he would a a fix matters so that affairs could bridged Over. This led to the fraud of the pretended robbery unknown parties. Smith has been arrested. The Southern Ohio fair closed on the 28th ult. With an attendance of 15,000 people. It has been a Success beyond anticipation. Cotton Gin invented Eli Whitney the original sewing machine Tho first piano manufactured in America and various other curious reminiscences. Two thirds of the Model room was entirely destroyed. The Bare Walls remain and the tile fire proof floors Are covered with Small mountains of debris. The principal loss Falls upon the Patent office. The original copy of the declaration of Independence and the relics of Gen. Washington were saved As Wras also the Franklin printing press. Nearly All the specifications and original drawings of the Patent office Are Safe and from these the models can reproduced if necessary. None of the land office records have been destroyed the Fife but Many Are seriously damaged water. The records of the application division of patentees and of which papers no copies wer6 made were saved. The most valuable models saved were those relating to sewing machines fire arms printing presses locks safes Etc. The models of reapers blowers and various agricultural implements were destroyed. A temporary room is to erected at once. The damage to the building is variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000. Washington sept. 25. Thirty thousand models w Ere destroyed fire in the Patent office. The value of the property lost in the abstract will aggregate $1,500,000, but As a Large class of the models cannot or will not replaced the actual loss will probably not reach Over $800,000 or. $900,000. The Patent office has to its credit we Ith the Treasury Over and above its earnings a sum sufficient to meet this expenditure but it cannot used without an appropriation Congress. Washington sept. 27. The commissioner of patents makes the following official announcement regarding the late fire a apart from the damage dope to the building the pecuniary loss occasioned the fire is not very great. No files of pending applications for patents or of rejected applications were lost or damaged and no original drawings except in a very few cases were destroyed. Those drawings destroyed were oily of one Issue sept. 4, 1877, and of these photo lithograph copies had been made so that no inconvenience will arise from their destruction. A considerable Quantity of photo Litho graph copies were burned but of these in no Case were All the copies burned of one Patent a part of the copies have been preserved storage Iii another room of the building we hich was uninjured. There will no interruption of the business of the office. The examination of applications will go on As usual and patents will issued without delay. Sympathetic. One of the w Omen who called upon a recently bereaved wife to sympathize with her was singularly endowed with an experience which enabled her to enter fully into the feelings of the sufferer. She was a tall masculine looking woman with a rather red face but she possessed a delicacy of perception w hich was remarkable. She had been in to View the body and was now with the widow. She said a a he seemed to have gone peaceful like a a a yes a murmured the Mourner. A a that a a Blessing to you and something that should a Comfort to you. Just think How you a feel if head went the other Way. There a no telling. I know a woman we Hose Man died in such agony face was perfectly dread Ful to look at. You could t look at it. And she never got Over it. In lost three husbands but they All thank heaven went easy. I done to know How my present husband will go. I Hope for the Best. But id rather lose a Hundred husbands than to have one go miserable. You done to know we hat an awful thing it is to have to slip away with a fuss. Every one of my men went As if they wanted to go and when they were Laid out it did you Good to look at Mem. Why some folks came in twice to see Mem and then weren to satisfied their faces were just As Calm As could not stuck up i done to mean but sort of Danbury news. A hark from the one of the old time dwellers in Worcester devoted a generous share of his wealth to the construction of a costly Tomb where his ashes might repose insecurity after the spark of life had gone out. One Day he was contemplating the completed work and while he was so engaged the old Sexton came along wiping his solid features As usual with the familiar Bandana. Said the owner of the Tomb a a this is a costly Home for my poor Bones to occupy when i shall have done with life i have a great Deal of Money lying Idle in this softly depositing his Bandana in his hat and casting a look of unutterable sympathy at the speaker the old Sexton replied a a yes sir so you have. And May you soon begin to realize on press. A knotty horse Case. Los Angeles has had a novel Law suit. A. Had a sick horse which was in great suffering and which Bethought was sure to die. So he took the horse to b., a livery stable keeper and said a i will give you five dollars to kill this horse for a fall right a said So a. Paid the five dollars left the horse in charge of b., and went away. B. Could not however summon sufficient nerve to kill the animal so in his turn he said to cd a if you will kill this horse for me i we ill give you five a a All right a said c., and took the horse away with him. Did not kill the horse but doctored him and restored him to health. A., much to his Surprise saw Driving a Fine animal which he recognized As his formerly sick horse. He demanded the horse from Refused to give it up and a. Brought suit to recover Possession. The jury decided that Was entitled to the horse. The Case will appealed to the county Angeles express. The bulgarians show remarkable Powers at Many sorts of handicraft. In the towns almost every Well to do family has its loom and with the rudest treadle and heckles fabrics of great Beauty Are made. A gentleman lately in the country saw dress fabrics with patterns raised or worked out in Wool Phich would he said do credit to the Best Draughtsmen of Bradford. The turkish policy has however discouraged manufacture with the View of getting Revenue from import duties. The bulgarians also Excel in filigree work. A at Graham tex., a few Days ago Deputy sheriff Melton and two assistants White and Stewart attempted to arrest Bob Vandever a Southern Texas desperado when he shot and killed Stewart fatally wounded Melton and seriously wounded White. Vandever escaped. Al sorts. A Paris has 37,514 Street lamps. A new York City has 85,000 Gin Mills. A California has a 200-Pound pumpkin. A the Borrower runs in his own debt. A dress trains grow longer and longer. A Brigham Youngs widow is going to lecture. A american oysters arc being shipped to England. A a very sad questions where will our Money Safe a the new York Lier Ald says Queen Victoria is stingy. A the fashionable watering places Are now like squeezed Lemons. A committing incendiary so is called a a torching a building in Georgia. A new England has in her savings Banks the enormous amount of $750,000,-000. A it was Brigham a Roung a eldest son who wrote the line a what is Home without a Mother a a speaking of the absconding Chicago banker the Brooklyn unit Arvils remarks a the is not dead but a or. Turreen of Indianapolis was recently married. A a Ope Good Verreen deserves another a says the Chicago a sick old chinese woman was found in an abandoned House in Eureka cal., where her relatives had left her to starve to death. A they have found an honest politician in Georgia and they propose to blow him up with a torpedo so As to give us All a piece. A cheer up times will easier when the professional base Ball players quit for the season and begin to put their hoarded wealth in circulation. A either the balls Are softer or the boys Heads Are harder than they were last summer. Base Ball Hasni to taken its usual number of scalps this season. A it is remarked a bilious Eastern journal of a Chicago couple a a two souls with but a single thought How to get rid of each a what this country wants is a few More ninety inc cent stores. A Dollar is too much to pay for Twenty cent Camden Post. A a of few men dying at the age of eighty a remarks the athenaeum a can it said so truly As of m. Thiers that they have died too a every Man likes to hit the Nail upon the head. But let a Man hit the Nail upon the toe his big toe particularly against a huge Rock and it is p. Different matter entirely. A Asa Howell of Wilson n. C., aged sixty has just married his fifth wife a modest Maiden of Twenty six. He went Over the Hill to the poor House to get her and brought her thence. A there is probably no piece of Wood that can brought up to such a degree of polish As the solitary Cracker barrel cover in a grocery bar. It would almost make a reflector for a Hartford Globe. A Theodore Thomas says a a my experience this summer in the larger cities of the West has fully demonstrated my belief that All we need to give musical Art a Home in this country is Large Halls and popular a if there is a talented author now meditating a this great Uncle on his wife a Side a or a a Helen a stepmothers fourth Cousin a we warn him to desist and turn his attention to the journal. A a lady asked a Little boy How he liked the new baby. A a i Doitt think she agrees with me a he replied. A a Why does no to she agree with you a a a i done to know a he said a a but i Bear to see Mother kiss a a Man recently wrote to the officials of the Boston Concord amp Montreal Railroad a a for a Chance to run on the he was told he could a a run on the Road As Rii Uch As he liked if he would Only keep out of the Way of the trains. A if live men were the recipients of half As much just Praise As is bestowed on those who have gone Over with the silent majority we fancy that this we orld such a confounded Turner 8 Falls reporter. A the bostonian Are going to have a a a Nervine Hospital to cure those patients who Are suffering Anodyne from the Lack of proper treatment. We suppose everybody la soon laudanum up to the skies for their Enterprise. We opiate la a Success Standard. A a correspondent from the seat of War on the russian Side writes to a London paper a a put a Turk in a ditch give him a gun a Lackful of cartridges a loaf of bread and a Jug of water and he will remain there a week or a month under the most dreadful artillery fire that can directed against him without a he had waited upon her Home for the first time. They stood on the front Steps gazing at the heavens. She a a what a glorious sight and to think that every one of those Beautiful stars is a great we orld like ours can anything More Sublime a he a tyres. Cheek a and he kissed her and hurried Down the Steps just As her worthy father was coming up. A the melting philanthropist who but a few Short Days ago stood around the streets and in the High places of the land and we ept Over the woes and sorrows of the poor Labouring men who had to work for ninety cents a Day now put in ten solid hours a Day discussing store Box politics and Levy assessments upon the same workingmen to defray a a Campaign with a bit of Lemon in Hawk Eye. A this is the time of year that twelve Yoke of Young men and women buy a dozen Gingerbread and a quart of ice Cream take them to a friends House where they eat up All the marketing and kick seven holes through a Twenty five Dollar carpet and go away at three of clock a. In. Exclaiming a a what a delightful Surprise party that was a a and probably it was to everyone except the victims. A kind of philosophy. A in Church and in state it is Rule or ruled in courtship or marriage it is fool or to fooled in logic and Law it is Nick or nicked Iii gambling and Trade it is trick or tricked in treaty and War it is beat or beaten in the struggle for life it is eat or to eaten. A Peppercorn. A John f. Lewis a coloured Man living near Elmira n. Y., stopped at the imminent peril of his own life a runaway team and so saved mrs. J. Langdon her child and nurse who were returning from a visit to a Mark the rescued lady a husband gave him $1,000, the Holder of a $400 mortgage on his farm cancelled it another gentleman gave him Twenty five dollars and a a Mark Twain gave him fifty dollars and a Complete set of his works. A the following sensible remarks Are from Hubbard a newspaper advertiser a advertisers should not expect returns from their advertisements too quickly. The great Point to made is not the Selling of the article advertised to Day or to Morrow but the familiarizing of the Public with the name and Quality of the article. The great Point to made is to keep what you make before the Public that when a person wants anything of the kind your article will come up in his mind a a singular suit was commenced the other Day on behalf of the United states government in the United states District court at new York against Gen. John Fremont. It is charged against the general that he was commissioned a major general in May 1861, but did not assume actual command until the following july. For the time Between receiving his commission and assuming command he Drew pay from the government amounting to $3,000. It has now been decided the government that he should have drawn pay Only from the time of taking actual command and the present suit is brought to recover Back the $3,000 previously drawn. Perils of stage driving. The Eureka Nev Republican contains the following thrilling account of an attempt to Rob one of Wells Fargo amp coaches which was successfully resisted the messengers the stage says the Republican that left Eureka for Tybo on Munday afternoon the 3d, containing prof. T. Price the mining expert and j. M. Haskell As passengers the Driver Jack Perry an employee of the stage company was accosted about nine of clock at night As it had drawn up before the Willows station forty Miles South of Eureka three masked men one of whom called upon Blair to surrender saying a Eugene Blair get off that stage and believing that the men in the station had got drunk and that one of them was playing a Bluff game the demand was not immediately complied with besides the night was so dark that Tho speaker could not distinctly seen. The demand however was More peremptorily repeated when Blair prepared to dismount leaving the Driver and Jimmy Brown on the seat. Blair had hardly reached the ground with his trusty Shotgun we Hen he was greeted with a double discharge of a shot gun one from the rear of the stage and the other from the Corner of the stable both passing so near his head that the powder of one warmed his face. Blair returned the fire almost simultaneously but being partially blinded the smoke and not seeing his object plainly evidently without effect. The report of his gun had not died away before the cold muzzle of a gun was placed against his breast one of the robbers with the intention no doubt of making sure work of the Brave messenger. Blair caught it and chucked it aside and turned the robber who was pulling the wrong trigger half around when Brown on the seat watching his Opportunity raised his shot gun As Quick As a Flash and gave the Road agent the full contents of ode barrel Square in the Back and he fell Over mortally wounded loaded with eight Buckshot. Almost simultaneously with this deadly shot Blair had placed his shot gun squarely against the Fellows breast and would have blown a Hole through him As big As a Moon had not has Brave companion performed the service. Brown after firing the shot jumped from the stage but had not fairly reached the ground when he we As shot in the calf of the left leg inflicting a painful but not serious wound. The other two robbers then fired four More shots at the messengers at close Range with shot gun and revolvers none of which however did any harm though they came uncomfortably close and disappeared in the darkness. The firing having ceased the passengers got out of the stage cautiously and took a look at the wounded robber who was writhing in mortal agony and implored begged and prayed to killed. A noise in the station now attracted attention and on proceeding thither it was found that the Blacksmith and rancher who we Ere in charge of the place had been bound securely and threatened with in Stant death the robbers if they would give any alarm on the approach of the stage. The robbers had come to the station about an hour previous compelled the inmates to surrender cooked a meal and ate it a harnessed the horses that had been prepared for the incoming coach and then proceeded to Lay their plans of attack. A Small fort was built with boards at the Corner of the stable and an old a placed Handy for the purpose of opening the treasure Box. The wounded robber was taken into the station where All the parties remained during the night. Yesterday morning messes. Price and Haskell continued on their journey to Tybo while the two messengers the Driver and the dying robber who had suffered excruciating tortures through the night and Wras very Low proceeded to return to Eureka. Every Effort was made to induce the robber to reveal the names of his associates but to no purpose and when nearing pages place a few Miles from Eureka he began to breathe his last. Just before expiring he gave his name As Jack Davis the party arrived in town with the Corpse on tuesday evening. Davis has had quite a career. He followed the Rush to the Comstock and held the position of mining recorder of flowery District. In 1867 he robbed a stage in six mile Canon and was prosecuted judge Bishop of Eureka but escaped through the medium of tis Money and the venality of the jury. He was also connected with several other stage robberies Between Virginia and Carson. At one time he leased a Mill in six mile Canon As a Blind to his operations and would rework the Bullion stolen in his Many exploits. He was also engaged in that daring robbery of the Eastern bound express of the Central Pacific Railroad at Verdi a few years ago in which his gang secured some $50,000. All of them were captured and the Money recovered. They were sentenced to the state prison at Carson for Long terms but Davis at the time of the insurrection of the prisoners refusing to take part in it and assisting the authorities to quell the riot received a Pardon. He then went to Virginia City and worked in the Justice and Sierra Nevada mines. Shortly afterwards he came to Eureka where he has been for about eighteen months a part of the time working at the Richmond furnaces and in the mines on Ruby Hill. The two messengers James Brown and Eugene Blair deserve the gratitude of the people of this state for their matchless heroism. They have fought one of the greatest Battles that Are recorded of the Highway and their miraculous escape against such Large Odds covered with double barrelled shot guns and a dark night can Only Uteri entail to unflinching bravery

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