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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. The following sensational story is telegraphed from Woodstock, Vt.: Last evening, shortly after dark, Myron Emery, alad of 17, was seized near his home by three masked men, bound, gagged, and dragged two miles to Silver Lake and thrown in. The men fled, and Emery managed to free himself and get ashore, where he was found completely exhausted and insensible. The perpetrators have not been discovered and no cause can be assigned. A serious accident occurred to the eastward-bound train on the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, near Edmondson, on the night of the 4th, caused by the forward truck on the sleeping-car dropping down, throwing the car over a trestle, and pulling the next car off with it. Francis Moore, of Bledsoe's Landing, Ark., was killed, and an infant child of J. T. Eggleston, of Mississippi, was fatally injured. Two other passengers were severely, and about 15 slightly, wounded. Weedon, Goodwin and Colyer, found guilty of manslaughter by aiding in the killing of the prize-fighter Walker, at the recent prize-fight in New Jersey, have been sentenced to six years' imprisonment each in the Trenton Penitentiary. The remaining two prisoners, Clark and Neary, were sentenced to an imprisonment of two years. By a collision between two locomotives on the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad, near Pewee Valley Station, on the 4th, Ganther, engineer, and Brashear, fireman, were killed, and the express messenger and another fireman were badly injured. The entire front of the residence of Augustus Supples, of Rondout, N.Y., was blown out about 3 a. m. on the 2d, by a charge of powder placed in the window by some malicious person. The occupants of the house were uninjured. A freight and passenger train on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad collided near on the 4th, Shoals, Ind., killing the engineer, Scott, and the fireman, Keifer. Several passengers were slightly injured. About 90 Sioux Indians, under charge of commissioners, passed through Omaha, on the 3d, en route for the Indian Territory, on a tour of inspection. The Producers' and Manufacturers' Bank of Titusville, Pa., closed its doors on the 6th. There had been arun on the bank in consequence of the failure of the Pennsylvania Transportation Company. The assets of the bank are considered ample to meet all liabilities. The Paris (Ky.) Branch of the Northern Bank was destroyed by fire on the 6th. The money and other valuables were uninjured. A German boarding-house at Little Rock, Ark., was burned on the morning of the 6th, and two men named Patrick Shea and John Cooney, stone-cutters, perished in the flames. A Chicago Times special from Washington says the President has granted a pardon to the old counterfeiter, Fred Biebush, now serving out the fifth year of a 15 years' sentence in the Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Biebush is said to be old and infirm, and the petition for bis pardon was numerously signed by prominent citizens of St. Louis, where he formerly resided. At Newcastle, Ind., on the 7th, in an altercation growing out of a political discussion, John Runyan, a Democrat, shot and killed Charles Pressall, a Republican. The affair caused great excitement, and there was an ineffectual attempt made to lynch the murderer. A serious riot occurred between some whites and blacks in Charleston, S. c., on the night of election, in which one white man was killed and about a dozen others wounded, and one negro killed and eight others wounded. The combatants were t dispersed by the United States troops, after somesharp firing had occurred. 3 Deputy-Sheriff Benjamin Leach was 3 shot and killed by a colored man at the polls in the Eighth District of Anne t Arundel County, Md., on election day.
