10815. Second National Bank (St Louis, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 139
Charter Number: 139
Start Date: January 8, 1878
Location: St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 7d80f84b

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Description

Multiple newspaper dispatches (Jan 1878) report the Second National Bank of St. Louis closed/goes into liquidation and transferred its business to the Fourth National Bank; depositors to be paid in full on presentation of certified checks. No explicit run on this specific bank is described in these articles; closure described as voluntary liquidation/transfer of business.

Events (3)

1. December 2, 1863 Chartered

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2. January 8, 1878 Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Bank went into voluntary liquidation and transferred its business to the Fourth National Bank; depositors to be paid in full with certified checks via the Fourth National/First National for certification (reports dated Jan 8-9, 1878).
Newspaper Excerpt: The second national bank of St. Louis closed, but will pay all depositors in certified checks on the fourth national bank.
Source: newspapers

3. January 8, 1878 Voluntary Liquidation

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Newspaper Articles (8)

1. July 20, 1877 The True Northerner Paw Paw, MI

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THE NEWS CONDITION THE EAST. enormous copper lode has been discov- B. AN Milan. N. H The office of robbed T. ered Frothingham, at of Boston, was recently bonds. trunk containing $18,000 worth of in an of a TERRIBLE boiler explosion occurred A mill near Allentown Pa., one day last week, fatal ore in the killing of three men and received the resulting of five, while three others notable gathwounding injuries. There was a other day, serious literary men in Boston, the Lowell, on his of occasion departure ering to say of good-by to James Russel for his post of those presduty the as Minister poets to Longfellow Spain. Among and Oliver Wen- the dell ent were Holmes, the Ralph Waldo Harvard Emerson, College, and professors of number of Charles President Francis Adams, Jr., and a Massachusetts Congressmen. LIGHTNING struck a shed during a thunder- day, near North Bergen, N. J., the other old, storm Mrs. Sandow and a babe 10 months Mrs. killing Frederick Muller, a boy of 14 years. in and and Muller had been weeding the a Sandow and took shelter from the rain machine in field, extensive foundry and shed. shops of The A. Hartupee, in The Pittsburgh, total loss Pa., is have estibeen mated destroyed at $300,000. by fire. New York claims to have had a genuine case of Asiatic cholera. THE WEST. THE Milwaukee Sentinel prints telegrams Dathirty points in Minnesota, Iowa and kota, from which report grasshoppers in large num- the flying with the wind. In Minnesota alighting bers flying north, only a few the 'hoppers points are heard from. In the Farmers main are at 'hoppers the are doing no damage. encouraged with the crop prospects. From the scene of the Indian war in Idaho Gen. o. o. Howard telegraphs an band. acTerritory count of a battle with Chief Joseph's the meager particulars furnished we Le From that, after making a forced march, o'clock on glean the enemy, 300 strong, at 1 a struck of July 11. in a deep canon, at the mouth afternoon of the Cottonwood opened driving fire the with a howitzer, and succeeded in fighting once from their position. The from the savages in earnest, the troops firing then began rocks and barricades, and continued behind till nightfall. The soldiers slept on their the arms. aton the morning on the 12th seand, early renewed, and, after some tack was the Indians were drivvere fighting position. The pursuit was en from their some time, and the retreat of kept hostilos up for was accelerated by a number artil- of the were sent after them by the shells that Howard claims a victory as the relery. sult of Gen. this engagement, but the casualties one, show it to have been a dearly-purchased Indians it can be conceded. Thirteen not if such killed (the number of wounded of is solwere while exactly the same number slain, and given), by a singular coincidence, were killed were diers, twenty -four wounded. Among the Another Capt. Bancroft and Lieut. Butcher3' Williams. and Drovers', has St. Louis bank, doors the Reports of rich gold discovclosed in its the Big Horn country have produced from eries excitement at Deadwood, in the an immense place large parties have set out latest expectation which of finding a fortune in this Dorado. LIEUT. COL. M. V. SHERIDAN returned to Chia few days ago from the battle-ground cago where the brave Custer and his troops were The bodies of some of the dead were alain. found to be decomposed beyond which recognition. could be The bodies of the privates and the graves identified were properly buried officers The remains of twelve Lincoln. marked. brought to Fort were bones boxed of and the gallant Custer Those will be of The to West Point for intermet Smith, taken Custer, Capt. Yates. and Lieuts. the Col. and Melutosh will be removed to Calhoun Cemetery at Leavenworth. The re- of National other officers await the action mains of the Those of Lieut. Crittenden were their friends. permanent burial on the spot where father, he given fell, in obedience to the wishes of his who objected to their removal. THE failure of the Second National and Butchers' and Drovers' banks, in St. Louis, of caused quite a run on the savings banks that city, and two or three of the weaker of these institutions have suspended. THE SOUTH. A NEGRO named Wilson was hanged at Nash- a Tenn., last week, for the murder of ville, policeman. Over witnessed the execution, was conducted in a shockingly bungling culprit which The noose slipped, and the intoleramanner. died slowly of strangulation, suffering ble agonies. THE New Orleans School Board has decided to establish separate schools for the two races. The whole body of troops now stationed Southern States, with the exception of Mexican those in Texas to operate against the men. marauders, in does not exceed 1,000 or 1,200 WASHINGTON. IT is announced at the Treasury Department natural that gold that has lost in value from the abrasion in circulation will be received at loss by weight. This would involve a on treasury to depositors of not exceeding ten cents eagles or double eagles. A MEETING of white and black citizens of the in South Carolina known as the scene of a region the Ellenton riot last fall has been held with restore peace and harmony. Resolu- to a view to were unanimously adopted looking of tions of race trouble and to a dropping Federal courts. cessation pending prosecutions in the State and THE Secretary of the Navy has addressed a letter to Capt. Howgate, the originator of the establish a colony for Arctic exploration the far north, declining to The a in to accompany the expedition. Sec- to officer plan to detail authorized civil does not consider himself for retary detail civil officer for such service, and, the same reason, he regrets that he of cannot instruwith the request for a loan of the comply ments belonging to the avy for the use expedition. THE Treasury Department has issued the fifty-first call for the redemption of 5.20 bonds consols of 1865. The call of which $7,000,000 are coupon of 000,000. 1865, is for and $10,- and in$3,000,000 registered bonds, principal terest to be paid at the treasury on and after on the 16th of October next, interest to cerse that day. The Treasury Department has re- received from Barnstable, Mass., the official port of the seizure of the whaling ship Rising Sun, of that port, by a Spanish armed vessel off Cuba. The Department has also been made officially acquainted with the arrest and conof These matters will into, and Spain held to a strict finement Ellen Rizpah. of Capt. Dunham, accountability the ha schooner looked for the outrages.

2. January 11, 1878 The Emporia News Emporia, KS

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SUSPENDED.-Jan. 3, Jacob Bunn's banking house, Springfield, Illinois, liabilities $912,000. Mr. Bunn has for forty years been the leading banker in central Illinois, and turns over all bis property to his creditors. Jan. 4, State savings banks of Indianapolis, Ind.; the Rollingsford savings bank, Salmon Falls, N. H.; J. N. Thomas' banking house, Des Moines, lowa. Jan. 5, the Thompsonville, Ct., savings bank. Jan. 7, Pottsville, Pa., bank elosed, Also, Peddecord & Burrows bank, at Decatur, III, Jan. 8, the second national bank of St. Louis closed, but will pay all depositors in certified checks on the fourth national bank.

3. January 12, 1878 The Dallas Weekly Herald Dallas, TX

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HERE AND THERE. Death of Victor Emanuel- Williams and Lindsey Tie - the Third Bellet for the Kentucky Mensionship Gose Into Liquidation. Sr. LOUIS, January 9.-The Second National bank of St. Louis, in líquidation, has transferred its business to the South National bank of St. Louis, where depositors will be paid in full, but checks must be presented to the First National bank for certification. C. J. Freyer, manager of Freyer, Pappenheim & Adams' Opera Company, has disappeared. He took no baggage with him, and anxiety is manifested. NEW YORK, January 9.-The BOBUal meeting of the Bar association eleeted Evarts president and Samuel J. Tilden vice-president. The presidents of trunk roads will meet here on Thursday omakea final effort to prevent the cutting down of rates. PARIS, January 9.-Victor Emanuel, king of Italy, died at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. FRANKFORT, Ky., January 9.-The second ballot for United States senator in Joint session, stood: Williams, 50; Lindsey. 50; McCreery, 23; Boyd, republican, 13. Two absentees Third ballot-Williams, 51; Lindsey, 51; MeCreery, 21; Boyd, 13. NEW YORK, January 10.-Edward J. Dunning, Wall street broker, has failed. Liabilities about $200,000; assets, uncertain. SPRINGFIELD, MASS., January 10.The Great Barrington Savings bank suspended payment during an investigation by the state bank commissioners. The officers of the bank can meet all liabilities. Deposits, $405,000; total liabilities, $414,000. NEW YORK, January 10.-A Chicago special says that the wholesale grocery house of Wells & Faulkner suspended yesterday. Liabilities, $94,000; assets, $100,000. CHICAGO, January 10.-An involuntary petition in bankruptey has been filed against Ellehs and Charles Eidred, lumber dealers, on a claim of $132,000. DES MOINES, IOWA, January 10.The legislature, which meets,Monday, will probably re-elect United States Senator Allison. There is no other candidate in the field. NEW YORK, January 10.-J. T. Reynolds & Co. deny that they are involved in the Dunning troubles, and state their readiness to immediately discount any paper of theirs which holders may present. ATLANTA, January 8.-The talented Virginian, Agnes Herndon, took Atlanta by storm. She was greeted by a A large and entbusiastic audience. banquet will be given in her honor tonight. She is the coming star. PARIS, January 8.-Francois Vincent Raphael, a French chewist and : politician, is dead. NEW ORLEANS, January 8.-The anI niversary of the battle of New Orleans, e was celebrated to-day by a grand milltary pagesnt, composed of the Thirteenth Unite. States infantry, comy manded by Captain Ferdipand E. 8 Decourcy: Marines and sailors, of the United States steamship Enterprise, and the monitor Cannonicus, com: manded by Lieutenant F. W. Nichols; uniformed Louisiana militia. and vari4, ous volunteer military organizations, a commanded by Colonel Owen. Salutes were fired by the Washington artillery and the Louisiana field artillery, under Calonel John Glynn. After the parade, the federal and volunteer off cere feasted together.

4. January 13, 1878 The New Orleans Daily Democrat New Orleans, LA

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ST. LOUIS NEWS. FAILURE OF SEVERAL BANKS-PROVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION THEREON. The Depreciation in Real Estate Baby Show-The St. Louis PapersLast Year's Loss by Fire. [Special Correspondence of the Democrat.] ST. LOUIS, January 10. 1878. TWO ST. LOUIS BANKS have gone into liquidation since the first of January. the Second National and the Real Estate Savings Bank. THE SECOND NATIONAL closed Its doors yesterday. All depositors' aocounts have been trai ster red to the Fourth National Bank, and will be paid by that bank on presentation of the checks. certified to by the Second National. The directors of the closed bank are George H. Rea. George D. Capen. Marcus A. Wolff. G. L. Joy. W. L. Pope, A. Largue, David Pearson. H. L. Newman. 8. A. Bemis, J. S. Moss. E. D. Jones and Charles E. Blayback. The ectors claim that the stockholders will realize cents on the dollar. THE REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK suspended last week. The St. Louis stockholdders of the bank have had a couple of meetings since, but are as yet undetermined as to the best method of winding up the affairs of the bank-whether to place the bank in the hands of an assignee or to let the management remain in the hands of the directors. About one-third of the stock is held by residents of Hartford. Conn., and the stockholders here are waiting to hear from them before taking action in the matter. The depositors had a meeting yesterday and passed 11. resolution recommending that the present directors be allowed to wind up the affairs of the bank. A committee was also appointed at this meeting to examinethe affairs of the bank and report at a subsequent meeting. With a few excep ions the depositorsseem to be satisfled with the management of the directors. and the examining committee WAB appointed merely to satisfy the wishes of the officers of the bank. The directors of the bank are E. A. Manny. T. G. Russell, James T. Johnson. A., Valle, Robert B. Wade, Thadeus S. Smith, Wm. R. Pye, August B. Hart. D. H. Naylor and Wm. F. Cozzens. In case the bank is placed in the hands of an assignee. the depositors will have to quietly await and abide the settlement made by him. but should the stockholders decide to lot the board of directors wind up the affairs of the bank, then there will be B chance for every one of the depositors to bring separate suit against the bank as a corporation or against the officers of the bank individually. and all creditors whose deposits amount to less than $300 are allowed to sue before a justice of the peace. The present State constitution makes it a misdemeanor for any director. manager. cashier or other officer of a bank to assent to the receipt of deposits. or to the creation of debts by the bank. after the bank is known by him to be in an insolvent or failing condition. and also makes him responsible for all such deposits and debts. The lawyers here are now having a big fls ht over this clause in the constitution. one side claiming that it went into operation immediately after the adoption of the constitution in November. 1875, and that it has been in force ever since: and the other side contending that the clause was not self-operative, but that it required a legislative enactment to put it into force. Last April the legislature passed a bill covering the points contained in the constiautional clause, and the bank attorneys claim thatthis was the eactn ent It quired by the constitutional clause. The bill passed without an argency clause, and for that reason did not, they claim, go into effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the Legislature, or about the last of August 1877. Fifteen banks suspended in St, Louis between the adoption of the constitution and the last of August, 1877, and the directors of all these banks are, of course, deeply interested in a settlement of the question in dispute among the lawyers, But they are not the only ones interested. Ten thousand people. who intrusted their little savings to the keeping of these banks, are equally interested. Some fifty or more suits have been ought by individual depositors against the directors of one of the banks alone, and one of the cases is now on the way to the Supreme C urt. A demurrer was entered to this particular suit in the circuit court. and it was based on the interpretation given by the bank attorneys to the bank clause in the constitution, namely: that the clause was not selfoperative. An answer was filed to the demurrer and the question submitted to the court. A deeision was rendered some time afterwards in favor of the bank attorneys, all the judges concurring and the demurrer was accordingly sustained. An appeal was taken by the other side to the Court of Appeals. This time a decision was rendered in favor of the depositors. and the decision of the lower court was reversed, The case has again been appealed-this time by the bank men. but no decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court 88 yet. The five judges of the Circuit Court put one construction on the bank clause in the constitution. and the three judges of the Court of Appeals give it an entirely different construction: and five more judges are now called upon to decide the question decisively. The suspension of the Real Estate Savings Bank is said to have been due to THE DEPRECIATION OF REAL ESTATE IN AND ABOUT ST. LOUIS, and nearly all the bank failures that have 00curred here the past two years were caused in great part by the same fact. The banks loaned

5. January 17, 1878 The Eaton Democrat Eaton, OH

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neeless. General A few mornings since, at Cincinnati, an accident occurred at the yards of the Cinciunati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, in which Mr. Wm. O'Meara, who resides at the foot of Budd Street, lost his life. O'Meara has been night watchman at the yards for the past twenty-five years. At the time of the accident he became confused in walking upon the railroad track, and at the approach of a switch enginestepped direct'y in front of it. The wheels passed over his right leg, severing it from the body, and from which he bled to death before medical aid reached him. He was taken to his home, where he breathed his last. He leaves a large family. McCammon, of the Department of Justice, has submitted the report made by the Board of Inquiry convened by him in June last to investigate the Indian service. The report makes serious charges against ex-Comm sioner Smith and his assistants. After reciting several instances of leose management on the part of Commissioner Smith and his subordinates, the Board remarks: The absence of regulations, systems and methods; the suppression of charges and specifications; the carrying on of a semiofficial correspondence; the careless disposal of papers and records; the relinquishment of authority, or delegation of official power to another; the disappearance of valuable papers; the unwarranted opposition to the Board of Indian Commissioners: the unfitness for their respective positions of the Chief Clerk, the Correspondence Clerk, the Annuity Clerk and others; the persecution of the Chief of the Medical Division; the incompetency of the Chief of the Accounts Division; the inefficiency of the Acting Chief of the Land Division; the habitual lack of circumspection in the Finance Division; the uselessness, without instructions, of the force of the Civilization Division; and, finally, the general demoralization of the force of the Bureau throughout, did not afford data from which the late Commissioner could find an abuse. The Second National Bank of St. Louis has ceased to exist as a distinct institution. A statement appears in the papers to the effect that the bank has gone into voluntary liquidation, having transferred its business to the Fourth National Bank of St. Louis. pied eq IIIM depositors that peounouus s! 7I in fu 1, but that the checks must first be presented at the board for certification. At the time of the panic, when many banks were failing, the Second National was scarcely expected to survive the test, butit somehow managed to pull through. The -00 of si made Mou quemeounous casion something of a sensation. At Havana, Tooncoso & Argudin, dry goods importers, have failed. Busing & Co., sugar and tobacco exporters, have suspended payment. dealers 101 MeN 'uog p Rader "If in tobacco, have been adjudicated voluntary bankrupts. Liabilities, $180,000; assets, *000'28$ Montgomery Blair, a few days ago, introduced a memorial into the House of Delegates of Maryland, addressed to the President of the Senate of the United States and the Speaker of the House, reopening the question of Hayes's title to the Presidency, and praying that the needful legislation Principally ascertain 01 pendops by Away who was elected President at the recent election, and to give effect to the will of the Blain "IN etc. 'Avey' теле IIIM pus peeple, advocated his memorial, urging its adoption, and reviewing generally President Hayes's title to office. Mr. Loeb, Republican, moved to lay the memorial on the table, and called for the yeas and nays, SUM 7I 14 'sAsu 13: vhhich then referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The New Jersey Legislature organized on the 8th by electing George C. Ludlow President of the Senate, and John Eagan Speaker of the House. The Governor's message shows the State finances to be in good condition, and says: anticipate no embarrassment in confining the ordinary State tax to one mill. The rate will produce $566,250, which will be the only revenue raised direct from the people for the ordinary expenditures. The net earnings of the State Prison last year were $12,129. The who'e expense account of the riots was $55,000. The Governor recommends that the Stevens battery be tendered to the United States Government, provided the government will reimburse the State for all expenses, and complete it, or that it be sold at public or private sale. The Minnesota Legislature organized on the 8th by electing the nominees of the Republican caucus. The caucus of Democratic legislators at Columbus, Ohio, nominated George H. Pendleton on the third ballot for United States Senator. The vote stood as follows 8 'Prea, :I Payne, 19T NORTH :6I Converse, 2; Pendleton, 51. The New Hampshire Republican State Convention, at itsrecentsession in Concord, nominated B. F. Prescott for Governor by acclamation, and Daniel E. Willard for Rail road Commissioner. Resolutions were passed reaffirming the principles of the Cincinnati platform, approving the policy of Hayes, and in opposition to silver legislation. Resolutions have been introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature in opposition to the Bland Silver Bill, and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations Edwin J. Dunning, jr., note-broker, No. 61 Walnut Street, New York, has made an assignment. His liabilities are placed

6. January 19, 1878 American Citizen Canton, MS

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LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Pottsville (Pa.) Bank suspended on the 7th. This is the fifth banking-house that has suspended there within 18 months. The New Orleans Clearing-house Association have passed a resolution protesting against the passage of the Bland Silver bill. Dispatches from various points in New England on the 7th report intense cold weather, ranging from 24 degrees below zero at Nashua, N. H., to 42 degrees below at Fort Fairfield, Me. Richmond (Va.) reports, same day, say that the James River was frozen over, and in some parts of the State the thermometer was below zero. The thirteenth annual Convention of the American Dairymen's Association assembled at Cleveland, O., on the 8th, with a large attendance of dairymen from the different States and Canada. The report of the Commissioners of Emigration shows the total number of aliens arrived at the port of New York last year was 54,536, a decrease of 16,729 compared with the previous year. The anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was celebrated in that city on the 8th by a grand military procession. In reference to the recent interference with United States revenue officers in the discharge of their duties in Union County, S. C., the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is informed that Governor Hampton has directed the Sheriff of Union County to see the law enforced, and proposes to remove the Trial Justice and disband the inilitia company implicated in the rescue of Federal prisoners at Spartansburg. The Second National Bank of St. Louis has gone out of business. All depositors are paid in full on demand. The Savings Bank at Garrettsville, O., closed its doors on the 9th. Assets said to be equal to liabilities. John F. Henry, Curran & Co., of New York City, the most extensive patent medicine house in the country, have been forced into bankruptcy, caused by the suspension a few days previously of E. J. Dunning, Jr., a leading banker and broker. Upon the recommendation of the United States Attorney and the Judges of the Western District of Arkansas, the President has commuted to imprisonment for life

7. January 19, 1878 West Virginia Argus Kingwood, WV

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liquidation, having transferred its business to the Fourth National Bank of St. Louis. It is announced that depositors will be paid in full, but that the checks must first be presented at the board for certification. At the time of the panic, when so many banks were failing, the Second National was scarcely expected to survive the test, but it somehow managed to pull through. The announcement now made is likely to occasion something of a sensation......... At Havana, Troncoso & Argudin, dry goods importers, have failed. Busing & Co., sugar and tobacco exporters, have suspended payment......M. Rader & Son, New York City, dealers in tobacco, have been adjudicated voluntary bankrupts. Liabilities, $180,000; assets, $87,000..... Montgomery Blair, a few days ago, introduced a memorial, addressed to the President of the Senate of the United States and the Speaker of the House, reopening the question of Hayes's title to the Presidency, and praying that the needful legislation may be adopted to ascertain principally who was elected President at the recent election; and to give effect to the will of the people, and will ever pray, ete. Mr. Blair advocated his memorial, urging its adoption, and reviewing generally President Hayes's title to office. Mr. Loeb, Republican, moved to lay the memorial on the table, and called for the yeas and nays, which resulted: yeas, 13; nays, 51. It was then referred to the Committee on Federal Relations...... The New Jersey Legislature organized on the 8th by electing Geo. C. Ludlow President of the Senate, and John Eagan Speaker of the House. The Governor's message shows the State finances to be in good condition, and says: "I anticipate no embarrassment in confining the ordinary State tax to one mill. The rate will produce $566,250, which will be the only revenue raised directly from the people for the ordinary expenditures. The net earnings of the State Prison last year were $12,129. The whole expense on account of the riots was $55,000. The Governor recommends that the Stevens battery be tendered to the United States Government, provided the government will reimburse the State for all expenses, and complete it, or that it be so'd at public or private sale....... The Minnesota Legislature organized on the 8th by electing the nominees of the Republican caucus, ### Western Items. Maj. Conklin and Wm. Baldwni have returned from the newly discovered petroleum springs to Deadwood. They state the springs are located in Wyoming Territory, near Cheyenne River, and that there are two wells or springs from which a fine sample of crude lubricating oil is taken at the rate of two barrels per day. Several parties have already taken up squatter's claims on the grounds. Mr. Baldwin, who has had extensive experience in the Pennsylvania oil regions, pronounces these indications superior to any he has ever seen. ### Southern Items. Messrs. Moore, Kane, and Cummins, special deputy collectors, and William Durham, special Deputy Marshal, arrested a speddler in Union County, S. C., for selling tobacco improperly stamped, handcuffing their prisoners, and confiscating wagon, team, tobacco and stamps. A rifle company, armed with Winchester rifles, compelled the release of the prisoner and property. ### Fires A breaker at the Ellen Gowan Colliery, Lannigan's Patch, near Shenandoah, burned the other night. The colliery is a very large one, shipping about one hundred car loads of coal daily. Loss about $75,000, and four hundred men and boys thrown out of employment. ### Notes from Abroad. The London Advertiser hears, on reliable authority, that official information has been received in St. Petersburg that the Chinese have masscred fifteen thousand men, women and children at the Kashgarian town of Manas, committing the most frightful atrocities. The special correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, under date of Londen, Sunday morning, cabled the following: As I telegraphed Friday, England has declined to communicate Russia's answer to Turkey, but it is of course known unofficially in Constantinople. Private despatches from that city state that the peace party is in the ascendant, and they are willing to conclude a separate peace, but are withheld by the representations of the British Minister. The latter has so far committed his Government that, should Turkey be finally driven to extremities without receiving material aid from England, Turkey would doubtless grant Russia every condition which would be prejudicial to England's interests in revenge for the latter's desertion. Even English Liberals are weakening in their opposition to intervention, and Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the peace meeting Friday, took the ground that while it was to be opposed, he was indisposed to take any active steps in opposition at this crisis. England's second note, requesting Russia to define terms for the armistice, and warning her that England must have a voice in the settlement of peace, may be as unsuccessful as her first, in which case the Cabinet would be placed in a most embarrassing situation. Many Conservative members of Parliament are opposed to the policy heretofore pursued, and the resignation of some or all the members of the Cabinet is probable soon after the assembling of Parliament. The evacuation of Sofia by the Turks is fully confirmed, and the morning's dispatches announce its occupation by General Gourko. Large supplies have fallen into Russian hands, and about 7,000 wounded are prisoners......... A number of American citizens from Baltimore, who have taken forcible possession of Morant Keys, a dependency of Jamaica, and who have established a Baltimore Guano Company, and have been shipping guano in spite of the warnings of the United States Consul there and the Government of Jamaica, have been driven off the Keys by Her Majesty's steamer Blanche, and brought to Kingston. A Captain Jennett claims to have discovered the Keys, and to have takan possession of them in the name of the United States, and protests agains at the conduct of the Jamaica authortities. A special from Bucharest says General Radetsky, who has crossed the Balkans through Shipka Pass, will probably not move beyond Kasanlik, where he can secure comfortable quarters. The interruption of communication across the Danube would arrest his onward march. Nothing is known at the headquarters of the Czarewitch about General Radetsky's movements, which would confirm the impression that he will not go beyond Kasanlik for the present. Straits of Magellan

8. January 26, 1878 San Marcos Free Press San Marcos, TX

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LATE NEWS ITEMS. Dispatches from various points in New England on the 7th report intense cold weather, ranging from 24 degrees below zero at Nashua, N. H., to 42 degrees below at Fort Fairfield, Me. Richmond (Va.) reports, same day, say that the ames River was frozen over, and in some-parts of the State the thermometer was below zero. The thirteenth annual Convention of the American Dairymen's Association assembled at Cleveland, O., on the 8th, with a large attendance of dairymen from the different States and Canada. The report of the Commissioners of Emigration shows the total number of aliens arrived at the port of New York last year was 54,536, a decrease of 16,729 compared with the previous year. The anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was celebrated in that city on the 8th by a grand military procession, In reference to the recent interference with United States revenue officers in the discharge of their duties in Union County, S. C., the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is informed that Governor Hampton has directed the Sheriff of Union County to see the law enforced, and proposes to remove the Trial Justice and disband the inilitia company implicated in the rescue of Federal prisoners at Spartansburg. The Second National Bank of St. Louis has gone out of business. All depositors are paid in full on demand. The Savings Bank at Garrettsville, o., closed its doors on the 9th. Assets said to be equal to liabilities. John F. Henry, Curran & Co., of New York City, the most extensive patent medicine house in the country, have been forced into bankruptcy, caused by the suspension a few days previously of E. J. Dunning, Jr., a leading banker and broker. Upon the recommendation of the United States Attorney and the Judges of the Western District of Arkansas, the President has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentences of Wm. J. Meaders and Thos. Robinson, convicted of murder, and Joshua Wade, convicted of rape, and sentenced to be hanged on the 18th inst. The officers of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., who are to be tried for conspiracy to defraud, escaped indictment for perjury in falsely swearing to the Company's condition, for the reason that there is no statute on which to convict them. The Legislature of last winter supposed that it had passed an act aiming at official perjury, but just before its passage some one ran a pen mark through that clause, and no one noticed the omission until it was too late. Railway postal mail service, to go into effect immediately, is ordered between St. Louis and Texas, by way of Little Rock, Ark. A large cattle shed at the stock-yards of Fairbanks's distillery, Terre Haute, Ind., was burned on the 13th, together with 300 of the 800 head of cattle confined therein. There is a general strike of Crispins at Lynn, Mass., and serious disturbances are threatened. Out of the 189 shoe manufactories in the city, only about one-fifth are running. The State Savings Bank of Trenton, N. J., suspended on the 12th. Chachapoyas, the capital of the Amazon, was recently visited by an earthquake which demolished several houses and damaged many others. Fortunately there was no loss of life. The walls swaying to and fro, the groaning of roofs, the noise of falling tiles, the walls cracking and throwing out clouds of dust, combined with the shrieks, groans and desperation of the agonized inhabitants, made a frightful scene. Callao also experienced a severe shock of earthquake, but no damage was done. The new tariff bill reduces the articles taxed from 2,160 to 400. Jason Leighton's camp on West River, above Cherryfield, Me., burned on the night of the 11th, and four of his children perished in the flames.