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News OF At Home. Edwards, the Jamesburg bank rob- filber, escaped from State Prison by ing the iron bars in his cell, and letting himself down outside. In New York, Maurice Daly defeated of John Deery in a game of billiards five hundred points, for $1,000. The whaling bark Milwood, of New Bedford, valued at $26,000, has, crew been lost. Insurance, $21,000. The and cargo were saved. The Ohio State Fair, now being held deMansfield, has thus far proved a at cided success. Twenty-five thousand people visited the groundson the openng day. Considerable excitement was produced among depositors in the People's Bank of Nashville by the announce- institument of the suspension of that tion. Its immediate liabilities are reported to be $700,000, while its amount assets, which are nearly all available, to $114,000. The bank has been placed as in the bands of G. P. Thurston, trastee. The depositors are generally of small means. Partial thirty paypersons to them is promised in bank ment days. It is expected that the the will be able to pay 75 cents :on dolla A San Francisco dispatch reports and the selection of diamonds, rubies, there sapphires recently exhibited sent as coming from Arizona, have been London for identification, if possible, recentby to the parties claiming to have The disly sold them to Americans. belief in the genuineness of the reported discoveries is increasing. The number of emigrants who em- dubarked at Liverpool for America ring the month of August was 19,000. A brakeman named Murphy Alle- was over by a freight car on the run gheny Valley Railroad and instantly killed. At Canton, O., Mrs. Kent, wife and of William Kent, drowned herself child in East Creek, a short distance from the city. Twenty-toree thousand copies been of public debt statement have demand the printed in order to meet the for them from all parts of the country. a James F. Clarke, who was shot by brother of Miss Fewell, whom Brents- he had seduced, died of his wounds at ville, Virginia. This week, at London, Ohio, about seventeen hundred cattle were sold, to nearly all at from a fourth last half a cent advance over sold. month. a Some horses were also The total sales amounted to from $65, 000 to $70,000. man named Patsy Harrington the A run over by an engine of the was Westerman Iron Company, on Mahoning Division of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and was instantly killed. A dispatch from Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio, says that examination the county commissioners found, on between of the Treasury a deficit of retiring $60,000 and $70,009. The intreasurer, Odore A. Wick, became Peovolved by the suspension of the his seBank at Nashville, and and curities ples are good for the amount will relieve the country from loss. A fire broke out at Port Ewen, and N. Y., and destroyed eight buildings turnthree barns. Nine families were ed houseless into the street. Loss $20,000; insurance unknown. The fire at Erie, Pa., Wednesday with night, destroyed a $250,000 hotel $38,000 worth of furniture. A collision at Pittsburg killed an engineer, and smashed one locomotive and several cars. Henry Gaskes, a prominent citizen MisHillsboro, Jefferson county, bed of souri, was found murdered in his with his head having been split open have The deed is supposed to has been an axe. committed by his wife, who been arrested. Nine thousand four hundred and arseventy-eight German immigrants month, a rived at Castle Gardens last same considerable increase over the mouth last year.
