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22
Month
March
Year
1878
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Col. David Campbell, a wealthy aud bitherto respected citizca of l'ittsbnrgh, Pa., and Socrotary of tho Iron City Insurance Coiapany has been arrosted on a ohargo of embezzling $12,000 of the compauy's funde. Eastern iinderwritcrs aro alarmcd at tho reduction of the Chicago Uro brigade, and an advanoe of rates is threatenod Thero haa been more hazing at Princeton Collego, and half a dozen studonts aro undor arrest for ansault and incondiariam - some of thom having attempted to net lire to one of the college buildings A shocking tragedy i reportad from WeetcheBter county, N. Y. Theron Merritt, a woll-to-do citizon, while laboring undor a fit of inpanity, murdored Mr. Leggett, a near rolative and neighbor, and oommilted suicide. Joseph Lapaiue, alias Joseph Parisb, was executed at Concord, N. H., last week, for the mnrder of Josie A. Langmaid, aged 17, at Pembroke, on the 4th of October, 1875. Lapaigo confessed to tbe murder of Miss Langmaid, nuil albo of Misa Bal!, a school-teacher, atSt. Albans, Vt, in 1874. A thief entered the Lochmere National Bank, at Cambridge, Mass., the other day, and, whilo a pal engaged the attention of tho President, bstracted $47,000 in money and bonds from the safe. The rascáis got away with the plunder. THK TVEST. It íb reported from the far West that Sitting Buil and hi followera are on the verge of starvation, and have notified Gen. Miles that they aro anxions to Burrender.. ..Several persons were frozen to death in Wyoming Territory during tlie late terrible suow-storm. The statistics of the pork-packing and cutting trade in Chicago for tho yoar onding Feb. 28, 1878, show a total, in round numbers, of ,000,000 hogs packed and cut up- something over 1.000,000 in exceBS of any previous year. Nwioatisn throngh the Straits of Mackinaw opened earhor this yer than ever before, so far as the records show. Tho first vossel of the season passed through on the 16th of Marcb. In 1871 the straits were opened as early as April 3, and that was commented upon at the time ?.s a remaikable circumstance. Chicago papers announco the death of O. A. Willard, editer-in-chief of the JZvening Post. Ho was 43 yeara oíd Advices from the Northwest, by way of Mauitoba, report that Sitting Buli's band are near the boundary, and pay liitle attention to it in the pursuitof buffaloes, frequently crossing to this side. THE SOLTH. A FEAEixx earthquake prevailcd at Columbus, Ky., at 4 o'ckck on the niorning of March 12. Tho shocks wero bo violent as to rook housen, to roll bedatoads across floors, to tura over Bafea and prcssee, emashine them, and to ring locomotive bella. A portion of the Misgúgippi bauk caved in, leaving a house on the raggcd ediic All the people were suddenly awakened and badlv frightened...Two vcry distinct shocks oí earthquake were feit at Milford, N. EL, on lbo samo day. It is stiid the pubiic lands in the vicinity of Pensaoola, Fia., have beon almost eutirely etnpped of growing trees by the rapacious timber thiovos A negro who grossly aseaulted a child aged 5 yeara, cansing ita death, at PcnHaoola, Fla., was wrested from the officers and lynched by a mob. Tho Shcriff's posso resisted the lynchers, Uilling one and woundüig five daugeroijsly A negro niurderer by tlie name of Brown Coble was hanged at Winchester, Tenn., ou Friday, March 15. He made a speech, at the close of which he caid : "I feel now as Paul says : ' I am now ready to be oflered. and the time of niv departure is near at hand. I havo foncht the good fight ; I have fmished my course ; I have kept the failh; henceforth there 18 laid up for me a crown of rightcousnesa.'" Miss Blary Hampton, a prominent fchoolteacher in a Memphi public school, has been diucovered as a forger, Bhe haviDg forgcd the names of prominont pereons to notes on nhich sho got from banks aud private parties $3,600. Hot Spbikcw, Ark., has been visited by auother fire. Four large buildi.igs wcro burned Loss, $ln,000 A negro murderer named Oub Johnson was executed in the presence of an immense crowd at Ronie, Ga., on March 15. The Snpreme Court of Louisiana has given a deoision in the appealed case of Thomas O, Anderson, tho convicted momber of the Eoturning Board, lt roverses the verdict of the lower conrt. and orders bis release. Ohief Juntice Manning, in deliveriug the opinión, said that "nowherein law is a Consolidated return required as a deelaration of the result, and its alteration or modification can in no way affect tueoleclion. If evory cono)idatcdrc turn wereforged, and tho Beturning Board com plied with the law, and made their statemen from the ComminBioners' returns, no injury could result. It does not appear that any pape has been forged that is ealculated, with a com Eliance with the law, to change the resuit. I i the essence of the crime that it should bo committed by a public officer, and on a docu ment which would change the result of the electionB. Thi was not done." The letter o John Sherrnan, Stanley Matthews and others which appoared ín tho record, was alluded to by the Chief Justice, wbo stated that it sboulc be treated by the public in like manner as tha of a membei of the House of Commong who at tempted to influence the decisión of the conr in the Tichborne case. OENKKAL. The United States Consul at San Domingo has boen arrested and thrown uto a dungeon and the war stoamer Plymouth has been orderec thithtr f or the protection of Amorican citizene By a recent ruling of tho Postónico Department, all weekly papers may now be Bont by mail at 1 cent each, without regard to wcight The Pennsylvania Colonization Society has authorizcd the American Colonization Society to eend, at its expense, fifty emigrants to Liberia. They will leave the lst of May. Hou. J. Edwards Leonabd, niember of Congrees from Louisiana, whom the President recently diapatched as a confidential envoy to the island cf Cuba, died of yellow fever in the oity of Havana on the 15th of March. By a new lw of Congres?, just signed by the President, it is eow lawful for defendanta in criminal suits brought under the Unitet States statutes to teglify in their own behalf, il they so choof e. WASHINGTON. The investigation of the notoriousi McGnrrahan claim by the Senato Committee on Public Lands has resulted in some ugiy revolations of corruption in high places. The evidence is furmshed by the New Idra Company, which contostë the ownersliip of the qnickflilver mine, and consistB mainiy of lettors written by Mo Garrahan himself, oilendiüg over a period of about twonty years, to one Fred Frank who was tho Secretary of the "Panocho Grand Quicksilver MiDing Company," a Corporation organized by McGarrahan " to funtain his olaim. Theee letters and the books of the company are said to reveal iae race tnat McClarrahan succensfnlly mtngucd to control the appointment of United States Judgcs and District Attorneys in hisown intoreRt, and that he bribod Congressmen, Cabïnet officers, and others high in anthority with stock in aid company, nrach in the manner in which OakeB Ames placed Credit-JIobilier Btock where it would do the most good." A Washington dispatch says thero is a very bitter feeling betwees Jere Black and Montgomery Blair, in coneeqnence of the McGarrahan claim exposures. The latter assert that he oan prove that Black was paid tl5,000 to as eiHt McGarrahan when ho was Áttorney Geueral and a member of Buchanan's Cabinet. Gen. O. O. Howard, of tho army, in a suit bronght against him at Washington, the object of which was to hold bim to personal account for the disastrouB failnro of the Freedman's SavingB Bank, several yeirs ago, has boen acqnitted by the court of all blame and reBpoiuibility The Secretary of the Interior has decided that prc-cmption filing is not absolutoly req'üroil in making homeRtead entry, and that it may be entircly dispensad with ín making tinal proof thereoñ. This ruling will nave sctlk-r a great deal of inconveniencu and expense. The House Baijking and Currency Committee has agreod to a bilí providing for au issue of eilver bullion ceirtiflcates. The bill ie a compilation from eeveral propositions submitted to the committcc. It provides for the insne of cerliöcste in denomiuations of $10, f20, $50 100, $500 and tl, 000, of 412K grains. Thé certiflcatcs are to be payablo, leas ex])ense for t-oiuage and transportation, in silver coin or bars of flnn silver, at the option of the Govcrnmont.... Tbc House Committee on Civil Sirvico has votcd iu favor of the dismissal of Doorkceptr Polk {or disrcputable practices in nnectiou with his office. The following synopsis shows the exports of animal products from tho United States for the motith cf February : Bacon and ham?, 90 342 - 777 lb.H,1 ; pork, 5,964.115 lbs: pickled beef 4995,950 lbB:fresh beef .4,894,514 lard 41,895,433 lbs ; tallow, 9,166,601 lbs bntter 721,463 lbs; chceso, 3,338,722 lbs ; aggrcKat valué, 13 655 21P. Valué of exporta from New ïork during tho month, ÍÍ), 731,025. A HÜCCES3KCJ, experiment lias been made at the capital j) substitytinK Rteam for ower in propolling strcet cars The President haH reappointcd Miss Ada Swoot Pension Agent at Chicago. FOREIGN NKWS. A report ia current in London that England will insiat, at the International Conforence, that the ontiro Kushian Turkish treaty shall bo subraitted to the conference for consideration and approval, and that Austria is roady to join England in an alliance.. ..Kussia has acquiesoed in England'n proposition to admit Greecc to the congresa. . . .Forty miners vrere killed by an explosión in a coal pit nearBolton, England, a few days ago. A CoNaTANTiNOrLE dispatch says the Armeni.in.-i intend to petition England to oblain for Turkish Armenia, at tho congress, autonoroy under a European guarantee or protection'; otherwisu they fear Kussia will encourage Turkish nitsgovernnicnt in ordor to f urnixh a pretoxt for Rnssian absorption of the entire proviuce A graut of nearly 4.000,000 florins has been voted by tho Hungarian delegations for immediate uwe in certain warlike preparations decmod urgent by the Austrian Cabinot Tho ('■raad Duke Nichola' vit.it to the Sultan has been postponed until after the treaty of peaco is ratified. A terbiblv. ealamity is reporUsd from the oity of Brost, in Franco. By tho capsizing of a barge thirty-six persons, who were attending a fair, wero drowned. Latk advices from Cuba state that Voconte Garcia has proclaimod himself Dictator, and has assumed the goYemmont of the revolution, and l.as marched to the relief of Maceo, in tho Eastern Department, in the company of Belisaric Peralta HuxKia offers to the Bulgarians for their ruler Prince Battenburg, a nephevr of the EmpreüR. It is not likely that this choice vill suit England and Austria any better thau somc othor of the Czar'u dealings with the results of the war. A OAHi.E dispatch announces that Iiussia, at the instanco of Bismarck, has consontod that the coming congress may decide whether the antire treaty ia a proper subject of review, and to submit to whateyer decinion shall be reached A Vionna dispatch says that negotiations are proceeding between Sir Henry Elliott and Count Anirassy for an alliance botw een England and Austria A Vienna dispatch says a preliminary conference of Ambassadors is being planned at Borlin to settle the question of procedure at the congres A Madrid telegram saya there i much stress in the manufacturiug districta of Catalonia and in the business centers on the Hediterranean co&st, whcre numerous failures have takun place. Oue hundred and nineteen factories have been closed, aud 9,000 workmen throwu out of employment. The first important stop toward a termination of the war between the Papacy and the Itnlian Government has been taken. Against the earnest protests of the irreconcilables, the new Pope has ordered the Italian Bishops to enter into relations with the Government and obtain ita authority for the exercise of their fanotion.. . .A Constantinople dispatch announoos the avrival at Tchataldja, a few miles f rom Constantinople, of a corpa of 25,000 ïtuesians fiom Tirnova, north of the Balkans. Tho movemen' is probab'y chargeableto tho tureatening attitndo of England aod Austria.

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