Miscellaneous

Chas. F. Tifïany, convicted oL bigamy, Lawrenceburg, Ind., and awaiting tranaportation üo the penitentiary at Jeffersonville, where he was to be contined for three years, comniitted suicide at Cincinnati Wednesday morning by langing bimself with a linen towel fastened o one of the bars of his cell. The prisoners in the county j&il at Bath, N r., threw cayenne pepper in the eyea of the urnkey when he opened the door Wednesday, nd four eaoaped. One waa captured by a emale servant in the prison. The aheriff a wife seized Jim O JLaughlin, a notorious deaerado, but was choked off. He was chased croas the river and shot on the opposite ank. He then surrendered. A third was aptured by a boy armed with a revolver. At a meeting of the board of directora of the nlcan iron and steel works in 8t. Louis Wedesday morning, Wm. P. Shinn, iron manufacurer of Pittsburgh, was elected vice-president nd general manager of the company, and the works, which have been idle about two years, will resume operations at once under hia mangement. At the United States sub-treasury on Wedesday all paymenta of interest on the 4 per ent. loan were made in gold Gold was lso given in payment of all currency obligaioas on account of the accumulated gold in he vaulta. The steamahip Gellert arrived at New York rora Europe Wedneadayand broughtgold bulion to the amount of 7,653,000 franca and 202.00 reichmarka. The United States assay ofice paid out that day $639,127 in specie. The teamship Bothnia, from Earope, brought our handred and forty thousand dollara in gold. The iourneymen tanners of Pittaburg struck work Wednesday morning for an advance of 25 cents a day additional wages. The strikers, numbering 150, paraded the streets and were very orderly. It is probable that the emloyers wiil conctde the point and the men reiume work at an early day. The molders employed at the Pittsburg locomotivo works struck Tuesday for an advance of 36 cents a day, and a provisof that no piece work ahall je done at the works. Nearly $8,000,000 were paid out of the United States treasury during September on account of pension arreara. But for this the decreaae in the public debt du ring the month would have been abont $10,000,000. A diapatch from Milk River, Col., on Wedneaday says: Thornbnrg's command was attacked in Bad Canon at noon to-day, one mile south from here, on our march to the agency. Retreated in jood order to the wagon train, where we are now entrenching ourselves as East as possible. Thornburg was inatantly killed during the retreat. Capt, Payne was wounded in two placea slightly . Lieut. Paddoek and Captain Grimes are also painfully bat not dangerously wounded. Ten enlisted men and wagon maater McKinstry were killed, and at least 25 men and teamsters wounded. Up to Wednesday night no tidinga were receiyed of the whereabouta of Prof. Wiae and hia companion, Gen. Burr, who left St. Louis in a balloon on Sunday, and the opinión is growing very strong that they have met the ame fate os Donaldaon and Greenwood who ascended from Chicago two or three years ago. The following ia a list of those at White River agency probably killed by the outbrea] of the Ute Indians : Agent N. C. Meeker, wif e and daughter Josephine, aged 21, Frank an Harry Dresser, E. B. Jiansfield, W. H. Post, Mr and Mrs. Price and two childre , Fred. öhep herd, Geo. Eaton and a boy named Thompson A Denver dispatch saya the cause of the out break was probably the failure of the govern ment to pay the $79,000 due under the Burno treaty of 1873; by which the San Juan mining región was ceded by the Utes to Colorado Congresa and the Colorado people have ncve asked the transfer of the Utes to the Indian territory . The reunión at Toledo on Wednesday and Tbursday of the Union soldiers who had sul fereil in rebel prisons was one of the larges ever held in Toledo. Speeches were made b Gens. Garfield, Swayne, Sherwood and otuers and a permanent organization was effecte with the following officers : President, Capt R. W. Anderaon, One Hundred and Twenty Bccond Ohio infantry, Cambridge, O.; Secre tary, Lieut. R. C. Knaggs, öeventh Michiga infantry, Sheboygin, Wis. ; Treasurer, Col. é B. Street, Fifty-firat Indiana, Indianapolia. Arreara of pensions claims to the amount o $20,734,507 have been settled up to October 1 The average amount of arrears in each cas settled was $545. Whole number of case ettled in September 13,287. It ia estímate that there are atill about 6,000 or 7,000 pen aioners entitled to arrears whoae cases hav not heen settled. On Friday laat the city government of Ev ansville, Indiana, diasolved in ordtr to escap an execution of $65,000 recently rendere against it in favor of a New Jersey saving bank. There is great speculation as to wha the outcome will be, but neither the existin order of things nothing can be done with the Aboüt 600 cabinet-makers met at their hall in Cincinnati Eriday morning. Two firms sent Communications aunouncinjj that they would pay the advancif. A comimttee ot l appointed to wait upon non-striking workmen Saturday until they joined the movement. Thesteamship Main fr Europe brought $1,002,800 in gold coin. Charles Burnham the Erie lawyer who shot himself September 1, died Friday. The bullet penetrated bis brain and could not be extracated. He was rational most of the time until about a week ago. Two carpenters, John Krause, aged 36, and William Clark, aged 62, were drowned near the tour mile bridge near Cleveland, Friday morning while attempting to cross the river on a raft. King's powder mili, near South Lebanon, Obio, exploded Friday afternoon. Henry Simmonds, Charles Meyers and Joseph Pastors were instantly killed. The explosión was the result of carelessness of employés. Gold to the amount of $7,000,000 Bhipped from Europe, is due at New York this week. A boiler explosión Saturday morning at a cotton gin of L. B. White, Jiddleburg, N. C, killed three negroea. The steamship Cybele from Glasgow reports t Quebec tbe loss of Capt. Stevens, Bwept verboard during a heavy gale. ABodie, Cal., dispatch says that as the six 'clock shaft was beiüg lowered in the Tioga mine on Saturday with nine men on board ie engine escaDed the control of the engineer nd went down to the 500 foot level. All nine were either killed or fatally injured by the al!. The number of new caseB of yellow fever reorted at Memphis during last week was 68, whites 33, colored 35; total number to Saturay, 1,817 ; total number of deaths from yellow ever f or the week (inside the city), 20; total eaths to date, 403. Mrs. Martha Baldwin, of New Haven, Conn., las poisoned her imbecile and widowed sister, ilrs. Dickerman, and then poisoned herself, oth will probably die. Huch excitement is created in Huil, Canaa, in consequence of the announcement of 00 uases of small-pox in that citv. SchonU i„ i The boiler of Spiller's saw milis, near Wells, 'ex., exploded Monday morning, instantly tiiling James Henry, mortally wounding Nep 'owell (colored) and John C. Lovee of Daville, and seriously wounding and scalding five otners. Up to Monday night no news had been received from the survivors of Thornburg's exnedition against the TJte Indians. An official statement shows that Thornburg was selected as the man most fit for the task by the orders of the general of the army. It calis attention to the fact shown by correspondence that Agent Meeker and the Governor of Colorado considered one hundred men Bufficient to enforce order among the Indians.also that Thornburg himself regarded the three conipanies of cavalry and oue of infantry (in all two hundred men), which he took, ainply suflicient for the expedition. Thornburg was cautioned by a telegram, sent after he was well on his way, to advance with prudence, and, if he had reason to believe his f orce insufneient, to communicate with headquarters and cali lor more, which he wonld receive. An important decisión of the supreme ourt, beanng an the riot losses in Pittsburg was rendered in that ei' y Monday. The court s of opinión, and so decides, that Allegheny ounty is Hable. Prairie fires are doing considerable damage nd creating much alarm in Dakota, but so far no buildings have been distroyed. The woods long the Missouri river are on fire nd the town of Mandona was only saved by he activity of the citizens. The country beween Bismark and Fargo is burned over boroughly, Four miles of ties and a bridge t Crjstal Springs were distroyed. Trains ïave been budly delayed. The telegraph oprator at Deadwood reports the woods all afire tiereabouts, and several sawmills are reported lurned or in great danger there. True bllls were returned at Montreal on 'uesday by the grand jury against Sir Francis licks, K. J. Beek e, John Grant, John Ruskin, lugh McKay and W. W. Ogilvie directors, and . B. Rennie, late managor of the Consolidatd b ink, for making false statements of the )ank's affairs. Kobert W. Steel, bok-keeper for Isaac miths Son fc Co., umbrella manufactarers in iew York, is reported to have dissapeared with $60,000 of the firm's money. It is said hat the firm has been obliged to suspend on account of this loss, and is endeavoring to effect a compromise with its creditors. JLiouis Faber, an engineer on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road, states that a week ago Sunday night, while at Miller's station taking water, he observed a large baloon directly over head, which he judged to be lesa than a mile away, driving rapidly along in a northwesterly direction towards La! e Michigan, which is only half a mile from the station. John Bulla, his fireman, states th&t he also saw the baloon, and with Faber watched it out of sight. They told the operator at Forty-third street of the matter the same night. It was undoubtediy the Wise baloon. The American board of commissioners for foreign missions commenced the seventh annual meeting Tuesday afternoon at Syracuse, N. Y., the president, Mark Hookins, LL. )., in the chair. The attendance is very large. o less than 1,500 people are entertained by he committee on reception, and 3,000 in all re present. The woman's board have con-ributed $73,957 to the treasury; donations, ;283,627, falling behind the donations of laat rear $87.175; received from ordinarv legacies, 161,881, less than last year by $43,029; from he permanent tund, $6,968. Total income 351,926, exclusive of the extraordinary Otis egacy of $805,734. Tetal expeoditures of the ear $573,817. A letter was received Tuesday from Lieut. 'rice, dated the 3rd inst. He and his command f 29 men was safe at that time. Arma and ammunition have ben freely distributed to the people of Calorado.