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19
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November
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1875
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Th?; experiment of running a fast mail train from New York to Pittttburgh was inaugurated on tho 9th inst., and would have been aucceasful but for an accident tliat happened ncar Philadelphia. Mr. Douglas, Chief Eugiueer of the Penuaylvania railroad, who was superintending tho trip, leanod out of a window so far that his head strick a post standing near tho track. He was instantly killed. A stop was made, wheu tho train proceeded on its way, makiug the run through to Pittsburgh iu eleven houra and thirty minutéis. The locomotivo showed no eigus of giviug out, and the ofiiciala are conrident that regular trips can be made as proposed. Thk Oceanic Hotel and Ha cottages, located on Star Island, a summer resort on the New Hampshire soa coaHt, have been deatroyed by fire. Loss, L200, 000 .'. . . The Germán merchanta of New York are raiaing a big fundtodefray the expeiiBcs of the reception of the Germán Crown Prince in that city, ou hi.s viait to tliia country next year S. M. Beard, Sons .t Co., of New York, dealers in teas, havo failed. The liabilitiea ave placed at $3C0,000. Ten thousand dollara' worth of diamonds, which wero bome time ago stolen from the wife of Brick Pomeroy, in New York, haVe just been reeovered by the aid of a ciairvoyant. . The Brooklyn scandal volcano is beginning to rumble agaiu. Mrs. Moulton does not propoae to accept in silence the action of Mr. Beecher's church in dropping her name from ite roll of memberahip, and will appeal her case to a council of Cougregational miniaters. .. .Senator Dawea. of Massaehuaetts, bas been seriously injured by the kick of a vicious borse. Gko. L. Fox ("Htimpty Dumpty "), the wellknown actor of New York, iiaa become insano from overwork and iujury received whilo on a Wostrn trip .... A murderons affray took place in Philadelphia last week betweeu a party of men, in which a man named Wooster had a long-bladed knife puahcd through his head just bolow the braiu, the handle breaking off close to the head. THE WEST. All, of the Italiana, ove in nuniber, engaged iu tho horrid butchery at Denver, Col., have been arrested. It is hoped they wül be speedily hCSüiljt. Hanging ia too mild a jranpox prevails to an alarming extent in Cincinnati The Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune has no leaa than seven libel suits on its hands, the damagea claimed aggregatiug $1)0,000. .. .Chicago elevators, as per official returns, eoutain 1.405,607 buskela of wheat ; 802.932 bushels of corn ; 500,409 bushels of oats ; 148.958 bushols of rye. and 32.911 bnahels of barley, making a grand total of 2.833,820 bushels, against 2,403,833 buahela at this timo last year. Thebe is no truth in the report that the Northwesteru Railroad Compauy has purchased the Bockford, Rock Island and St. Louis road. .... Miss Jane Coombs, ono of the most popular comediennes at present on the American stage, ia playing a very aucceasful engagement at McVicker'a Chicago Theater. Crowdcd houses nightly witnesa her renditions of the heroine in the great hietorical spectacle of "The Jewess." The telegraph furaishes a synopsia of the statement of Neal O'Haley, one of the two butvivors of üie Pacific disaater. He eays: " About 250 people were on board. When the shock ocourred I ran on deck. Kverything wan in confusión, and the paascagers orowding on the hurricano deck. The ship feil off into the trough of the Bea. I saw a long vessel under sall, which they said struck the steamer. The passengers crowded into Hfe-boats, agaiuat the coinmanda of tho ofücers. I, with the chief engineer, got the port boat forward into the water ; got fifteen womon and six men iu her. Sbe waa capsized by the rolling of the ahip. I aaw non of them afterward. I supported myaelf by a Hoatiug skylight about fifteen minutes ; then got on a portion of tho hurrioane deck, with Horue eight othera. On looking for tho steamer, I f ound she had disappeared, leaviug a tloating maas of human beings. The screama for help were fearf ui. but soon oeased, and we were alone on the raft. There were the Captain, Becoud mate, seeond cook, and four passengere, including a young lady. At 1 o'clock uext morniug it blew a gale from the aontheast, the aea making a clean breach over the raft. We laahed ourselves on. About 4 a. m. the sea washed overboard the Captain, second mate, the lady, and another passenger. Abont 9 the second cook died. It cleared up about 4 p. m. I saw land fifteen miles distant, and a piece of the wreek with two or moro on it. About 5 p. m. another man died. On the morning of the 6th, 4 p. m., a large empty box Üoated near me, and I got it on the raft for shelter. I alept sound that night for aeveral hours. Ou the morning of the 7th, at 3 o'clock, I waa rescuod by the cutter." Tuk mystcry which at first shrouded the loen of the steamship Pacific haa been cleared up. A veaael oruiing for aurvivora in the vicinity of the diaaster discovered upon an island the M&ster and crew of the ship Orpheus, whioh rau upon a reef and auuk. The Captain of the Orphëua staten that hia veesel co.lided with an unknown stoainnhip, nndoubtedly the Paeifrc and Hustained aorioua damage. He imagined that the ateamer had received little injury and that she would put about and render hi'm needed aasistance. But the stoamship kept on her course, and finally disappeared in the diatance. The Maater of the Orpheus affirms that he uaed every meana poasible to avoid colliding, but that for some reaaon the lights of the Paciüc were not visible when they ought to havo been, and ahe bore down upon the Orpheua as thongh utterly oblivious of her presence. The veaaola Btruck ondparted, wheu the Orpheua aought a harbor, but, making a mistake in her rockouing, abe struck a reef and went down. all hand being saved The jurv in the great Ward will cuae, at Detroit, faile'd to agree ou a verdict. Eight were in favor of breakinjr tho will and four in favor of suataining it. Col. Joycie, ex-ltovenue Agent, who was roceutly couvicted at Jefferaon City, Mo., of revenue frauda, has beou sentenced to three and a half yeara' imprisonment in the Pcnilentiary. Joyce made an eloiuent appeal to the Court iu mitigation of his senteuce, asserting hia iirioceuce, and declaring that he waa convicted on the testimony of perjnreil witnessea. .... The population of Kansaa, accordiug to the new State censúa, íh 543,000. The Western millera propoae togive all their Eastern-bouud freight to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ]rovided it will keep out of the trunk-liue combiuation Advices from the Black Ilills rei)ort the discovery of rich diggings in the northeru hilla. A tauty of minera who were driven out of the Black Hilla at Uio point of the bayonet have arrivcd at Kanaas City. They report having found rich placer diggiugs, and. if let alone, could havopaüily earued tl() a day to the man. TUK SOUTH. The ateamnliip City of Waco was burned in the gulf, near Qalveaton, Tex., on tho morniug of the 9th inut. SI10 had just arrivcd from New York, and was aachorod outaido the ' bor. The .fire eaught in a largo quantity ol' oil which composed part of tlio cargo, and aproad rapidly. The ijaaBengorw and crew, couaiating of tifty ptraons, put off in the eteamer's boata. The wiqd at the time wa j blowing a gale, and, ae at last accounts nothiug had been heard of them, it is thonght every soul perisuod. Tho City of Waco was built at Choster, Pa., was almost now, and was valued at 250,000. TIo cargo was worth $10,000. Tiik Treasury Department has reoeived information of tho conviction of eighteen persona at Abingdon, Va., accusod of illicit distüling in that neighborhood. Over íifty additional arrests have also been made for illicit distilling iu tho Virginia mountain región, and frauds against tho governmeut thcro are in a fair way to be completely chockod, an they have already been in tho West,. ..The wife, daughter and son of Charles Massey, living uear Fordsville, Ky., receiitly died front tho effecta of arseuic poinon, wluch some flend threw into the family ttell. Jeff Da Vis has beeii made President of the American Department of the Miesissippi Valley Society, of London, Ëugland. The objoct of tliia movement is to direct attentiou to the dovelopment of the commercial, agricultnral, and mineral rosource of the valley of the Misstasippi It now seema probable that no boats left the stoamer City of Waco, burnod off Galveaton. The testimony of those on board of other veseela riding at anchor near tho Waco ie unanimously against tho ussumptiou that several boats left the wreek. Explosión after explosión was heard, supposed to bo a part of the cuvo of oil, while tho steamer was traming. i but no lifeboatu were seeu. It is probable that the whole list of passengere and crew perished. Some of them were seeu floating in the water and crjing for assistanco, but no aid could be extended ou account of tho boisteroua sca that was running. THEeasteru section of TeunesBce experienced a sovore oarthquake shock on the 12th of November. Advices front all parts of the South indícate that ou an ayerago the cotton erop of 1875 will fully oqnal if it doe'j uot exceed iu quantity and quality the product of formor years .... Threo of the Oweu county (Ky.) Ku-Klux have been cotivicfed. The Grand Jury of the United States District Court, at Brownsville, Texas, bas been investigatiug the Mexican raid business, and report that for a diatanco of 000 miles in length and 100 in breadth along the border tho Americana havo been ordered to leavo their ranches by tho Mexieau bandita, and that 100,000 cattle are stolen yearly by the greasers. WASHINGTON. The report of the Commiiisioner of the General Land Office is likely to créate a sensation. He devotes mnch space to the marnier in which railroads have obtaiuod and iwed their land grants. and especially cTtticises what ia called tho California Land Hing . . . . Asst. Atty.-Gen. Hpenee, of the Poatoffice Department, has decided that it is proper to exelude from che mails pohtal-cards containiag offensive expreesious and allogations calculated and intended to wouud the feelings of tho Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The lattor appealed to the Postónico Department for protection against iudiguities through the medium of postal-caras sent through the mails Vice-President Wilson had a buddeu and serious attack of illnesa a fow days ago, but is now rocovering. Gen. HumphbRs, Chief of Engiueers, iu bis annual report to tho War Department, denounces the Eads jetty systeru for iniproving the mouth of the Mississippi. He thinks, however, the gofernment ouglit now to go on with the écheme until it has been fnlly tested.... Secretary Bristow travels over forty-five yards of manuacript a day in the writing of bis anuual report The President, in an interview with the Board of Indian Commitssioners, tho other day, reiterated bis determination to adhore to the peace policy iu dealing with tho Iudians. The majorities of the Wiseonsin State ofricera, except Governor, are as follows, all being the Democratie candidates : Lieutenant Governor, Charles Parker, 1,312 majority; Secretary of State, Peter Doyle, 1,144; Treasurer, Ferdinand Kuehn, 3, 11)8; Attorney General, A. Scott Sloau, 2,193; Superiutendeut of Public Instructiou, Edward Seanng, 1,213. Tho majority of Ludington, Bepublican, over Taylor, Democrat, for Governor, is 715. 1 The total amount of interest paid on the pub- lic, debt of the United States for the last fiscal ; year waa f96,000,000 Secretary Bristow bas iasuod ten calis for the redemption of 5.20 bonds, aggregating $15,769,950, which completes the redemption of that class of bonds of 1864 Infernal Reverue Commissioner Pratt makes a suppletnental report upn the subject of the taxation of capital, deposita and circulation of national banks. The amount realized during the last fiscal year was $7,270, 758.40. Tho total mini received for taxation sinco tho organization of national banks ia $C4,989,371.46. Advices from Boston report that the briga J. W. Spencer and Toronto, and tho schoonere Moses Patten, Nettie Chase and Serene, were lost, with all on board, during the terrible hurricane which recently caused so much damage in the West Indiea. Details of the foundering of the steamer Pacific, on tho Pacific coast, show that the eatastrophe wa of a more lamentable nature than was at firat reported. Thero were on board the vessel at the time of the disaster two hundred aoula, aud only two persons, so far as known, live to teil the sad story. .. .Isaac P. Tice, the well-known iuveuior, is dead . . . .The General Miasionary Convention of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States held its animal sesaion at New York lajt week, all the members being present except Bishops Foster and Haven. The treasurer's report 1 Hhowed a balance on Nov. 1, 1874, of $13.288 ; receipts duriug the year, f662,485; expenditures, $721,800, leaving the debt of the treiism y f46,030. Besides this there are lettors of credit ' for foreign misaions amounting to $139,532, 1 making the real debt $185,562. Cait. Jeff D. Howfxl, tho commauder of the lost steamor Pacitic, was a brother-in-law 1 of Jeff Davis. : The ship Calcutta, from Quebec to Liverpool, i has been lost at sea. Twouty-two men of the crew and a lady passouger were drowned. The captain, three mon aud a boy were saved. FUKEION. Appitionai, letters have been received atLondon from Henry M. Stanley, in África, which are described as exceedingly iiitoresting. They fully confirm 8heke's views that the great Victoria Niyanza ia one body of water, and not an aggregatiou of lakes, as held by Livingstone. The notoriona Mordaunt divorce case haa been brought to an end in the eourts of England, Sir Charlea Mordaunt having been granted a decree of divoroo Ad vicea from Penang, India, announcO that the mutilated remains of Mr. Birch, the late English resident at Perak, have been recovered after a sbarp engagement with tho Malayans. A general outbreak was feared, and Houg Kong had been telegraphed to for troops .... Tho French Assembly bas, by an almost unanimous vote, adoptod an amendment to the electoral bilí allowing half-yearly reaidents to vote. The New York UeraU priuta a telographic , synopsis of Honrv M. Stanley's latest letters from the interior of África. Tiie intrepid ex. plorer had overal coutlicts with slave-dealers on Victoria Lake. Ou one occasion he wa 1 attacked by 100 natives, armed with spears, iu tliirteeu canoes, who were ropulsed after a 1 severo íigbt. Tliiee nativos were killed. He arrived at the Utesal hunting-camp atNisayura, April 12, where the King direeted extraordinary ■ festivities and displays. One feature was a naval review on the lake of eighty-four cauoea, mauned by 2,500 men. On the aecond day, in ' addition to the navl maneuvera, there were 1 races, in which eighty-four canoes were en1 gaged, each propolled by thirty oarsmen, the : King leading tho ileot porsonally in the presence of a great crowd of on-lookers. iuoluding 1 the 300 wivcs of the King. On the third day there was bird-Hhootins and target-practice by 3,000 troops, aud on the fourth day he returncd to Mtesas, the capital. The King has 2,000,000 of subject?. Ho is a Mussnlinan, bas great intelligence, and his domiuiou affords the best augury for the possible civilization of Afried. Heavy and incessant rains aro reported iu Eugland and Franco, and many parts of both countries are flooded By au explosión of lire-damp in a Belgian colliery, the other day, 10 persons were killed and 101) injured. several ol' them fatally Spain continúes tho sbip■ ment of troops to Cuba. . . .The Sultan of Turkoy bas ordered the districts of Trebigne, Biletz, and Piva to be detached from Herzegovina and organized as a separate de))artmeut, which will be placed uudor au Armouiau Greok (ioveinor. The crew of the British ship Lonnie, from Autsverp to New York, recently mutinied, aud killed tho" Master. mate aud boatswain. .. Servia has withdrawn lior troops fromtlio I iah frontier, aud the artnj' of the Sultan bas likewise retired. Thin is a step toward a settlcment of tho pending difticu!tiea. BniDEWATEií, iu Somersotshire, Eng., was recently iuundated by au inimeuHO tidal waAc Feu feet high, whioh cauwed much dima;o to ! shipping nnd other proper ty.. ..The move-! i meiits of tlio Prmca of Wales, in India, are aeriouBly hampered by the prevalenoe of cholera, Diastrous Üoods are reported , throiighout Englaud an.l Irelaud. ., .Cardinal ' McClotíkey has sailed for home. A stvERE battle haa been fought betweeu ■ Turklsh troopa and HerzegovLui&ns, near Gctsclio. icHiiIting u the total rmit of the troops, with the loss of neaily 1,000 killed, together with all theiv ammunition. baggage and several cannon .... It is said thau Spain haa replied to the note of the Uuited States in regard to the Dbneivauce of the treaty of 1795, defonding ïer rights with energy and moderation. The rei ly oxpresued tbc hope that in her deeire to maintaiu the good relations which have heretoforo existed between the two countries, Spain will meet with reciprocity The British Bhip Astrida, from London to the United Htates, bas been lost off AudreñBell, near Boulogne. Niue of her crew were drowued. Mauy other vosaels were wreclted on the French Rnd Englih coasts by the reeeut gale, whieh h reiifesented tm the most dostrllOtive for years. It is estimated thnt tho damago eaiwod iit Londoti by the tlde in tho Thames, wliich was the hlghest on record, will reaO'.i fully 35,000,000.

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