The Eaton Democrat, 1875-09-16

Wkaxkvbr may have become of Don Donaldson, - aldson, Donaldson, there is no question but that he a "high old time." Iowans feel proud of the fact that the Tittle mare Lola, now champion of the .American trotting arena, is a native of the Hawkeye State. She was foaled near Muscatine, and was formerly owned by man named Perry,"ho soldher to Mr,. De Forrest, her present owner. ' - The Captain of a vessel off. the Mas Massachusetts - sachusetts Massachusetts coast the other day espied at a long distance what he was willing to Mwear was a veritable sea-serpent, and ' rgave chase. . On coming np with it the imonster proved to be of the species .sugar hogshead ! The old salt vows it is the last sea-serpent he will ever give chase to. The spirit of rebellion is on the in increase - crease increase in the Turkish European prov provinces. - inces. provinces. Northern Bosnia is now in full sympathy with the movement, and Servia has taken sides with the insurgents, and is at the same time endeavoring to incite the Bulgarians against the common enemy. Albania and Croatia are in open irevolt, and Montenegro is liable at any ihour to be drawn into the tide of war. .'Evidently the " Sick Man of the East " :is growing sicker every day. Dmnkdjo one's self to death is a com common - mon common pastime in these degenerate days. But it is not often we hear of one drink drinking - ing drinking himself to death on cold water. Such a case, however, has recently occurred, , the victim being ex-Gov. Graham, of North Carolina. He went to Saratoga - to drink the waters for his health, and imbibed twenty glasses a day. This, the doctor says, was too much, and hast hastened - ened hastened his death. The advocates of cold water should take warning, and not drink to excess. The enlargement of the We land canal has commenced. This canal cuts through the Canadian peninsula west of the Niagara river, between .Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and it is to be enlarged to a width of 190 feet at the top and 100 feet at the bottom and a depth of four fourteen - teen fourteen feet, solidly walled for considerable distances with masonry. It will take in the largest lake steamers. The work of enlarging the Welland is expected to oc occupy - cupy occupy three years, and .cost from $10, $10,-000,000 - 000,000 $10,-000,000 to $20,000,000. Thb son of a Dr. S. S. Wallihan, of Southern Colorado, a lad of 10 years old, was the occasion of a most heartrend heartrending - ing heartrending tragedy a short time since. Seeing a hawk sailing along, he became aniious to shoot it, and, catching np his loaded shotgun, rushed, boy-fashion, for the door of the house, where he carelessly struck the gun against the ddor-casing, discharging it The whole charge en entered - tered entered the neck of his mother, . who died in five minutes. Mrs. Wallihan leaves five children, one of them a babe. Thb failure of the Bank of California was brought about like all the heavy banking failures of recent years, reckless trading in stocks. Instead of confining itself to a legitimate banking business, the concern rushed wildly into the whirl whirlpool - pool whirlpool o speculation and was swallowed np. Under the circumstances the col collapse - lapse collapse was inevitable, and. was only a ques question - tion question of time. There is a moral to be de deduced - duced deduced from this great financial wreck which it is hoped institutions of a similar nature will profit by. So long as bankers persist in violating banking laws they may expect to reap the penalty. Will they hoed this last warning ? No city in the country New York alone excepted is so well supplied with amusements as Chicago. The city has an over supply, and all grades good, bad and indifferent and people visiting there, by any ordinary judgment, need never be deceived. The "New Chicago Theater" and "McVicker's Theater will rank with the best in the country. At -either a good entertainment is always presented. Money is lavishly spent by the managers of these two houses for the comfort and pleasure of their pa patrons. - trons. patrons. Both are making unusual efforts for the. Exposition term, and all may visit them with the certainty of being pleased. .'. William C. Balston, the unfortunate President of the Bank of California, who committed suicide after the collapse of the gigantic financial balloon which he had himself inflated, and which he alone . directed in its dazzling course before the eyes of its multitude of worshippers on the Pacific Slope, was a most remarkable man. He left a home of limited preten sions in the East and entered the Bank of California as cashier, when its capital was small; he finally became President of the bank, and then commenced a career of daring and successful speculation little less than miraculous. Every thing he purchased immediately rose in -valae; every enterprise or scheme he favored appeared to be successful; it only needed his investment in any min ing stocks to have them immediately and permanently "bulled." He was watched in his business investments by other capitalists, and unwittingly guided their investments. He spent large sums in public improvements, and increased the capital stock of the Bank of California to $5,000,000 in order to allow him to continue to satisfy his ever-increasing and over-ardent desire for speculation. His aims were unnatu ral as his energy and ambition were un unflagging. - flagging. unflagging. Socially he was no less re markable. Though his mental energies seemed strained to the utmost during the

Gordon, the Black Hills adventurer, has backed ont of the suit which he commenced with so much flourish against the military au authorities - thorities authorities at Omaha for false imprisonment, and paid the costs of the litigation. A fire at Virginia City, Nevada, last week, destroyed $125,000 worth of property. The jury of inquest in the case of Balaton, the San Francisco banker, returned a verdict of accidental death. It now transpires that the failure of the Bank of California was not caused so much by a con conspiracy - spiracy conspiracy on the part of its enemies as by the ras rascality - cality rascality of the late President. The directors of the institution authorize the statement that Balston's defalcation will amount to between three and four millions of. dollars, aad that a large overissue of stock has also been discov discovered. - ered. discovered. The directors, for a mysterious reason, decline to lot the public know what particular use was made of this large sum of money. John N. Edwards, of the St Louis Times, and Emory S. Foster, of the St. Lords Journal, fought a bloodless duel last week in Winnebago county, 111. One round was fired at twenty paces with nary revolvers, the bullets whistling harmlessly in the air. Kdwarls demanded an another - other another shot, bnt Foster declined. After consid considerable - erable considerable parley the affair was amicably settled, the belligerents shook bands, the genial Bour bon was produced, and the agreeable tormina tormina-tionof - tionof tormina-tionof the trouble generously toasted. The difficulty grew out of the Jeff Davis Winnebago county controversy. Another aeronaut has met with a tragic death. A man calling himself Prof. Ariel, traveling with a circus, made an ascension in a hot-air balloon at Jackson, Mich., last week. On de descending, - scending, descending, the balloon seemed in danger of striking on the railroad bridge, and the occu occupant, - pant, occupant, to save himself, jumped into the water and was drowned. The pesky grasshopper has turned upagain. Millions of them have recently been Bern traveling over Central and Southorn Illinois in a southeasterly direction. Fortunately they can do bnt little harm to the crops this season, but damage is to be apprehended next year in localities where they may alight at this time. Mr. Fisher, an Alderman of St. Paul, was re cently expelled from the City Council for ac accepting - cepting accepting bribes and appropriating to bis own use some property purchased by the city the property being seventy-five bushels of oats. The Commissioners appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians for the purchase of the Black Mills arrived at the Red Cloud Agency on the 5th of September. About 16,000 savages had collected at the Agency. The Commissioners were hopeful of being able to make a treaty. A serious Indian outbreak is reported in East East-em - em East-em Nevada and Western Utah. Gen. Schofield has sent troops to that region, and will himself go to the scene of the disturbances. The amount of grain in store in Chicago on the 8th inst was 611,717 bushels of wheat ; 1, 1,-517,689 - 517,689 1,-517,689 bushels of corn; 311,125 bushels of oats ; 58,815 bushels of rye, and 32,080 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,531,466 bushels, against 2,983,958 bushels at the same period last year. Prof. C. V. Biley, State Entomologist of Missouri, informs the editor of the Chicago Journal that the swarms of grasshoppers re recently - cently recently seen flying over Illinois, are not the rapacious kind from the Western frontier. The great Inter-State Exposition at Chicago, on the 9th iust., was attended by an immense throng of people. The Chicago papers de describe - scribe describe it as a magnificent display of art, in industrial - dustrial industrial ingenuity and other attractions. The great show will remain open to the public until Oct 8. A' number of serious railroad accidents oc occurred - curred occurred on the Northwestern road in the vicinity of Harvard, IU., on the night of the 8th inert., all of them caused by rain-storms and defective bridges. An express train ran off the end of an embankment into a creek. Henry Morris, engineer ; James Fury, baggage master ; W. J. Grouse, a passenger ; and Mr. Black, news agent were instantly killed. Hall, express messenger ; Frank Gish, fireman ; James Ranons, conductor ; and several passengers were very seriously injured, but it is hoped not fatally. A freight train ran into a break in a culvert, Instantly killing the engineer and fireman. Another - -!. ; r.n inn a similar tran and twelve errick fatal were ed. held a k, and ceased 'in and Unable sed." 3r, con ank for false entries. On Friday, the 3d of September, the good

The city of Louisville, Ky., has been excited over a first-class criminal fiasco, the following particulars of which we glean from one of tho local papers : About four o'clock in the morning Louis Behm, teller and bookkeeper in the Planters' National Bank, went to the First street .police station, wrote on the slate that his wife had been chloroformed and he had been taken to the bank and forced to open the vaults by four men, who had robbed the bank. His clothes were bloody and he exhibited several wounds. He was unable to speak, and was taken home. A physician was called, detectives were notified, and J. W. Dun Duncan, - can, Duncan, President of the bank, was sum summoned. - moned. summoned. Behm's wounds were examined and found to be slight cuts on the neck, one on the thigh, and one on the abdo abdomen. - men. abdomen. He stated that he felt unwell yes yesterday, - terday, yesterday, and went rowing on the river and went to the bank afterwards to finish up his work. At about 10 o'clock he thought of the meeting of the Athletic Society, to which he belonged, and went to the livery stable near the bank and or ordered - dered ordered a horse and buggy, and told the hostler if he was not back by the time the horse was ready, to drive in the di direction - rection direction of the bank, as he was going after a blanket. In a short time ho re returned - turned returned and put the blanket in the buggy a;d drove in the direction of homo. lie went in the gymnasium in the rear of his house, spoke to the members of the so society, - ciety, society, and then went in the house, and afterward drove the horse back, took a drink with a friend, got on a street car, went home and to bed, and at about half half-past' - past' half-past' 11 o'clock fell asleep. He was waked np in the night by some one pull pulling - ing pulling at his feet. The gas was burning brightly, and he saw a man at the foot of his bed with a pistol in his hand, who threatened to kill him if he gave the alarm. He partially dressed, when an another - other another man came in and took him to the rear of the house and demanded the safe keys. He denied having them, when one ' of the men, both of whom were masked, hit Tiim in the neck and threatened to kill him. He then gave np the keys and the men marched him to the river front and down to Third street, ont Third to Main, and np Main to the bank. He refused to open the vault, and the men, who had been joined by two others, attacked him and inflicted other wounds, and fearing he would be killed he opened the vault He begged on his knees that they woidd not take all the money, but they emptied all the cash, about $100,000, and $10,000 in bonds, into a bag, which one of the men had around his neck. Then they locked him in the vault and left. Behem then fainted, but afterward revived, and with a cart hook, which he pulled from the wall and a piece of wood", unscrewed the locks and got out, and then screwed the locks in their places and went to the station-house and gave the alarm. This was the first story, but when closely questioned by Detectives Bligh and Gat Gat-lager - lager Gat-lager and the bank officers, he became confused and made contradictory Btite Btite-. - . Btite-. ments. The directors of tho bank then charged him directly with tho robbery, but lie denied it stoutly. All this time he was at the Gait House under surveil surveillance. - lance. surveillance. After his denial, they moved to another room, and while going there he told President Dunne that he wanted to sleep about an hour and then he would talk. He laid down and slept soundly for an hour, when he was waked np, and confessed that he had robbed the bank and had the money. He wanted to wait until night, but was finally prevailed to go to where the money was hid, which was underneath the floor oi the gymna sium in the rear of his house, it was wrapped in a sheet and buried in the sawdust lie gave as a reason that ne had been speculating and lost money, and thought he could work the robbery through. He was committed to jail to night and the law will take its course, Behm has been in the employ of the bank since its organization, in lsoo. ilo had no bad habits, was a member of the church, and stood high in the commun ity. He is 29 years old, and has a wife and one child. He was fond of athletic sports and had built a gymnasium at his own expense. About six months ago he obtained $3,000 from his brother-rn-law, John M. Latterie, for the purpose of speculating in tobacco, and it is believed that he has been specula ting in cotton short time.

It is very seldom that the newspapers of the Dojiinion are called upon to chronicle a genuine snake story. Battle Battle-snakes - snakes Battle-snakes and copperheads are so few and far between that they are very seldom met with, and their depredations never heard of. However, a genuine snake -story comes from Ancaster this week, the victim being a young girl named Lucy Smith, residing in the village of Ancas Ancaster, - ter, Ancaster, and the reptilo one of those hideous, yellow spotted monsters known as milk snakes. Tho girl Lucy had gone out in the morning with her pail for the purpose of picking huckleberries. Her feet and ankles were quite bare, but Lucy, like most young country girls, was hardy and strong, and picked . her way through the brambles with as mnch grace and cour courage - age courage as an Indian. All that she remembers of her misfor misfortune - tune misfortune is, that as she was walking through . some burdocks she stepped upon some something - thing something soft,' slimy and crawling, and on feeling a stinging sensation in her ankle, like the touch of a thistle, looked down, and to her inexpressible horror, beheld a huge milk snake of extraordinary pro proportions - portions proportions twine itself about her leg and strike at it with distended hood and jaws. She remembered nothing more than that she screamed, until she found herself m her own bed at home. Fortunately, at the time of her adventure, several men were working in an oat-field near by, and having seen the girl go into the . berry patch, and hearing shortly after afterward - ward afterward a piercing scream, which told of fear, repugnance, and agony as plainly as words could have done, they hastened into the patch, and after a search of half an hour, gave it np as a bad job, argu ing that probably the girl liaa Deen stung by a wasp or some other venomous insect and left the berry patch by some other obscure way. After the men had gone back to their wsrk. three little girls entered the patch for the - purpose of picking berries. They, too, shortly afterward commenced to scream, one after another, and ran in into - to into the field where the men were working, when one of the girls fell down in a fit. The others told the men, as well as they could through their fear and excitement, that Lucy Smith waa lying in the berry Eateh, and that a big worm had killed er and was eating her np. They im immediately - mediately immediately hastened to the patch, where they beheld a sight which was enough to make the blood ot the strongest man run cold. There lay the unfortunate girl in a dead swoon, and in her lap lay a large milk snake, which was very jealous of its prey. The conduct of the hideous rep reptile - tile reptile as the men approached was peculiar in the extreme. With its hood and head distended, its red, jaws wide open, its long, supple tongue striking maliciously right and left, it ran around its victim almost erect on its tail, hissing savagely, and making that strange grinding noise which is possessed by only one repute of the snake family, the milk snake. Bage, jealousy and excitement had made the creature as supple as a cat, so that it was almost impossible to strike it with a stone ; beside, the men were afraid to throw with any force from a fear of strik striking - ing striking the helpless and prostrate child. Sometimes the reptile charged with such rapidity and fury that the men were forced to retreat, when the creature would return to its victim and coil itself in her lap. A neighbor seeing the dis disturbance, - turbance, disturbance, arrived with a pitchfork and succeeded in transfixing the snake, which measured three feet two inches in length, and seven inches in circumference at the largest part of its body. The unfortunate girl was carried home, when it was found that her leg was terribly swollen, and of a spotted green color like the snake itself. The mother of the child, without the slight slightest - est slightest hesitation, commenced to suck the wound, and soon reduced the swelling and drove away the color, after which a -. . , : . . 1 drawing pouiuce oi rea cuuuuge wun ap applied, - plied, applied, and ere morning all signs of swel swelling - ling swelling had disappeared. The girl has now thoroughly recovered, and has sustained no serious injuries save a shock of the nervous syBtem from which her young

Col. Mabxin has resigned the position of Chief of Police at Dayton. Two bbothers named Pief er, aged 20 and 26, were suffocated by dampness in a well, near Tiffin, last week. ! A kan named Albert Grace was killed at Columbus, a few days ago, while at attempting - tempting attempting to board a train. -t , . . William B. Ford, a well-known Ohio river pilot, committed suicide the other day at. Cincinnati by taking laudanum. Depression tf spirits, caused by leases at gambling, 'Impelled him to the rash act . ' ' ' - . - Daniel B. Groom, a well -known far mer residing near Groveport, Franklin county, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn, last Monday. Groom's mind had been seriously affect ed for some time. The State fair at Columbus was a great success, the display exceeding that of any previous year. The horse, cattle and sheep departments were well filled, and the machinery department made an excellent showing. Dimnta the day, Adolphns William Spencer was a crippled dulcimer player in Cleveland; but, when the shades of night had fallen, Adolphus was a gay young blood with watch and chain, plenty of money, and fond of the young ladies. A splendid lot of animals and birds reached the Cincinnati Zoological Gar Garden - den Garden recently from Hamburg, and were safely transferred. It is the intention to make this the most oomplete garden on the continent, though it will be some time before the largest animals, will ar rive. The following named 'gentlemen have recently .been appointed Postmasters at the places mentioned : East Trumbull, Ashtabula county, L. C. Horton ; Mar Martinsville, - tinsville, Martinsville, Clinton county, L. A. Vamer ; New Moorefield, Clark county, W. H. Agner;" Ohlstown, Trumbull .county, David Bearinger. Misa Peters, aged 16, a daughter of John A. Peters, of Pickaway county, while out riding with a party of friends in the northern part of the county, on Thursday of last week, was thrown from the carriage under the heels of the horses and instantly killed. - The horses ran away, dragging the body of the lady a distance of half a mile. . Samuel Turner, employed on a farm , near Gahanna, Franklin county, was de detected - tected detected stealing wheat from a neighbor and selling it at a mill. His disgrace so preyed upon his mind that he took a large dose of arsenic and died soon after afterward. - ward. afterward. The man , was miserably poor, having a wife and five children to sup support, - port, support, which no doubt induced the theft. Michael Ford, of Cincinnati, was looking through a bureau during his wife's absence for tobacco, when he un unexpectedly - expectedly unexpectedly found a bottle with a strong smell of whisky. He drank freely of the contraband treasure, but paid for it with his life. 'It was whisky and corro corrosive - sive corrosive sublimate, which his wife had pro procured - cured procured to poison bed-bugs. Last Saturday -evening six children got into a skiff in Mill river, at Fuller's Mills, on the Marietta railroad, for a ride across the river." r When about midway the boat, which had been leaking badly, sank. , One little girl was' drowned. Three others were rescued with great difficulty by a boy named Reader. The other three .were, unconscious when brought ashore, but were subsequently resuscitated. ' ' ") Skvebal thousand people, principally from Noble and adjoining counties, at tended the soldiers' reunion at Caldwell. The camp was located about a mile from town, in a pleasant wood. The address of welcome was delivered by J. M. Dal zell, after prayer; Col. B. K. Shaw, of Marietta, recited an original poem, and short addresses were delivered by United States Senator Cockeyll, of Missouri! CoL McConnell, of Marietta, and ot Wm. Dawson, foreman of the C pion Machine Works at Dayton killed in a cold-blooded manneij man named Murphy, one nigh week. One of Dawson's men wa ried, and the wedding festivities np with a dance at a public hall, to Murphy and others demanded tance, and when Dawson told t was a private party, and urged tl go away, Murphy drewabowie-kn! stabbed Dawson to the heart. J , served with distinction during the late war, and was highly esteemed.

The telegraph, says the Chicago Tribune, has already brought very full and vivid accounts of the scenes which transpired in San Francisco on the day of the collapse of the Bank of California and the events which have happened since. The mails now suggest a very suggestive picture of what occurred on the day before the Bank of California succumbed, when the " Kings " of money on one side and Flood & O'Brien on the other were waging tho death death-struggle - struggle death-struggle which was to end in the utter discomfiture of one or the other. The scene reminds one of the conspiracies and desperate efforts of the gamblers on memorable nights to break the faro faro-banks - banks faro-banks of Baden and Homburg in Ger Germany. - many. Germany. There was the same terrible ex excitement, - citement, excitement, the same desperate, reckless use of money, the same relentless fury, the same energy of despair. Th 3 Ophir miuiug stock was the objective point for the possession of which the rival Kings of the Bonanza were struggling. Flood & O'Brien wanted Ophir as one of the most important links in a chain of mines they are determined to have. To get Ophir, they must make Balston let go of it, and to make him or the Bank of Cali California - fornia California let go, they must tighten up the money market; in other words, put Balston's hands into a vise and squeeze them until he was compelled to drop the stocks he was clutching so desperately. They brought every trick and stratagem known to the unscrupulous and cunning capitalist to bear upon this process to make the bank crowd unload Ophir. Having a bank of their own with large capital, they used this as the principal battering-ram against the Bonk of Cali California. - fornia. California. They loaned money less freely. They flooded the market with other min mining - ing mining stocks, running the prices down so low that every one .could invest. Then they made their first serious assault upon the Bank of California by withdrawing nearly $2,000,000 in coin deposited in it and locking it up on special deposit elsewhere. Thus Flood & O'Brien kept on until they had succeeded in locking np $7,000,000 in their own vaults, $3, $3,-000,000 - 000,000 $3,-000,000 more in the savings-banks, and several millions more in the coun country. - try. country. Alien this ten millions was securely locked np, Flood & Brien had triumphed. Ophir went to the hammer at ruinous rates, and fell into the hands of the enemy. Then came the whispered suspicion that the Bank of California was not able to redeem its deposits, Then one, ten, a hundred depositors checked out their money. The rush of excited and alarmed depositors then be gan. Thousands rushed for their hoards; The bank could not get the gold to meet all these demands on sight, because Flood & O'Brien had locked up the gold securely. The other banks could not help, because in the tightened money market they must save them selves. Balston was hemmed in on every side. He was completely en enveloped - veloped enveloped in the meshes ol the net thrown over him. He could not expect Flood & O'Brien to relent, fr it was Flood & O'Brien's programme to break him down. This was what they were fight fighting - ing fighting for. He could not expect the other banks to help him, for the vise was squeezing them also, and self-preservation is the first law of life. His own stockholders, who were amply able to help him, were displeased with his reck reckless - less reckless management of the bank, and would not come to his rescue. He was alone in the midst of his enemies. The ancient Greek Nemesis was not more implacable. The inevitable crash came. The bank collapsed, and the wretched victim went to his death, like the haggard gambler who, having ventured all upon the throw of the dice and lost, puts the pistol to his head and fires. But the Kings of the Bonanza got the plunder for which they had fought. And Flood & O'Brien will rule the moneyed realm of California until some more powerful or more cunning rival unseats them and their bank in turn collapses.

citizens of Fort Smith, Ark., were regaled by a sight that never before met the view of any other people within the United States in time of peace, namely, the simultaneous banging of six murderers on one gallows. The culprits were John Whittington, white, aged 31; Daniel Evans, white, aged 20; Bmoker Mankiller, an Indian, aged 19; Samuel Fooy, a half-breed In Indian, - dian, Indian, aged 26; James H. Moore, white, aged 17; Edmund Campbell, a negro, aged 20. Tiro thousand people witnessed the ghastly spec spectacle. - tacle. spectacle. AU of them died "game." Moro race troubles are reported in Missis Mississippi. - sippi. Mississippi. During the progress of a colored polit political - ical political meeting at Clinton, on the 4th of September, a white man in the audience called one of the speakers a liar, which led to an indiscriminate fight Over a hunctrei shots were fired, and three whites and four blacks were killed, and a large number wounded on both sides. At the recommendation of the grand jury ot Washington comity, Ga., all the negroes ni nidi - di nidi cted for complicity in the allegod insurrec insurrection - tion insurrection have been discharged from custody. Touching the riot between whites and blacks at Clinton, Miss., a press dispatch from Yickeburg gives the .following version of the origin of the row : There is a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in Clii.ton. Young men from Raymond brought a bottle with them, and while speaking was going on, Martin Beverly and some of his friends went off a short dis distance - tance distance to take a drink. Tho negro Marshal for the occasion approached them and forbid their drinking. This order was not regarded, when the negro attempted to take the bottle out of Beverly's hand. Beverly finally struck the negro over the head with a bottle. Senator Caldwell (oolored) started to settle the diffi difficulty, - culty, difficulty, and was followed by some 20 negroes, whom be ordered back, but about 100 more came rushing up. while some one fired a shot which was followed by a general firing and stampede. A dispatch from Ticksborg, Hiss., .dated Sep September - tember September 7, says : "A white man named Heffer is reported lynched at Utica yesterday morning. Two negroes are also reported killed at Ray Raymond - mond Raymond last night One of the negroes who mu mutilated - tilated mutilated the body of Bively at Clinton is reported killed. John Noah one of the whites wounded at Clinton, is since dead. The total number of negroes killed in the fight at Clinton is now es estimated - timated estimated at twenty-five. All is quiet now in the lately disturbed districts, and the negroes are suing for peace. No further trouble is appre apprehended - hended apprehended in any quarter. Gov. Ames has issued a proclamation calling on all armed bodies of men, organized in defiance of law, to disperse. The bank of F. B. Hancock A Co., at Green Greenville, - ville, Greenville, Ky., was recently entered by burglars and robbed of $34,460. Jeff. Davis delivered an address before the Agricultural Society at De Soto. Mo., on the 8th of September. The officers of the secret service recently made a raid upon a gang of counterfeiters at Decatur, Ala;, and captured eleven of the num number. - ber. number. The prisoners are men of prominence in that locality, being wealthy farmers and land landowners. - owners. landowners. The operations of the gang were ex extensive, - tensive, extensive, for owing to their well-known "re "respectability" - spectability" "respectability" they were not suspected of manu manufacturing - facturing manufacturing or shoving " the queer." -

The wonderful nerve and cunning dis displayed - played displayed by the two young girls, Nettie Barrett, aged 17, and Frances Bridgman, aged 14, in their partially successful at attempt - tempt attempt to commit suicide in Belchertown, Mass., last week, invest the sad tragedy with a romantic interest. The two girls were pretty, intelligent, and of excellent families. Miss Barrett was sent to Bel Belchertown - chertown Belchertown by her mother, who lives at South Amherst, to continue her educa education, - tion, education, and was to have been baptized on Sunday in the church which witnessed her burial. Miss Bridgman, who had been her companionn, was the adopted daughter of Mr. Calvin Bridgman. They had been reproved by their guardians for keeping late hours, and on Thursday evening they stole out of the house of Mr. Daniel Packard, where they board boarded, - ed, boarded, and having procured some morphine, they returned to their room. Early Fri Friday - day Friday morning a neighbor called at the house saying that Miss Bridgman had taken a tearful farewell. Mrs. Packard went immediately to the room occupied by the girls, and there the victims lay, one in a deadly stupor, and the other writhing in terrible agony. The bed was covered with candy, and Miss Bridgman explained that they had overeaten of this. Efforts were made to rouse Miss Barrett, who refused to take anything bnt cold water, and said: "Now, go away ; I want to sleep." 'When Mrs. Packard had left the room for help, Miss Bridgman hailed a little girl and threw down a note ad addressed - dressed addressed to the druggist asking him to be so kind as to send hc-r five cents' worth of chloroform. She.- tiuew down also two letters directed to two young men whom they had been flirting with, bidding them farewell, and asking them to act as her bearers. Then followed an exciting scene in the little bed-room. Poor Nettie Barrett was dying. Miss Bridgman confessed that they had taken the morphine, that the candy was only a ruse, that there had been scandalous stories in the town about them, and that she did not wish ever to see her parents again, and hoped to die. She quietly watched her dying companion and wait waited - ed waited for the chloroform. With the death of Miss Barrett, however, came the de desire - sire desire to live, and Miss Bridgman request requested - ed requested an emetic. Only fivo hours before they entered the little bed-room they gayly played croquet with some young people, holding in their hands the candy which they wore to sprinkle on the bed. Miss Bridgman wrote what she thought was her last letter to her father in affec affectionate - tionate affectionate yet determined words. She would meet her parents in a world where there were no scandalous tongues and where they could live in peace. Miss Bridgeman is thought to be in a fair way