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A Bank Suspends. PETERSBURG, VA., Aug. 24.-The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, Va., has suspended, and will not, it is thought, resume business again. Depositors, howeyer, will probably be paid in full. The suspension is said to be due to dull collections on advances made by the bank.
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Ice in the Gulf. QUEBEC, Aug. 24 -Several inward vessels report heavy masses of ice in the Gulf and Strait of Belle Isle. Some of the oldest mariners cannot recollect having encountered so much ice before at this time of year. GENERAL NEWS. Hon. Stephen Salisbury of Worcester, Mass., died last evening. The steamer Oregon which arrived at New York Saturday evening from Queenstown made the passage in six days and ten hours. Duluth, Minn., was visited by a $100,000 fire Saturday night. The Bank of Windsor at Windsor, Va., has suspended. Depositors will probably be paid in full. It has been decided to exhume the body of Private Henry of the Greely party, now lying in Cypress Hill cemetery, Long Island. An autopsy will be made today by Coroners Levy of New York and Robinson of Long Island City. A number of newsboys were locked up in New Haven, Conn., yesterday, for crying Sunday newspapers on the streets. These are the first arrests under the recently enacted city ordinance. The United States steamer Despatch with President Arthur and Secretary Chandler on board arrived at West Island, R. I., last evening. The Senate and House special committees on ordinance and warships will hold a joint session at the Ocean House, Newport, R. I., this week.
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SUSPENSION OF A VIRGINIA BANK. PETERSBURG, Va., Aug. 24. - The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, this State, has suspended business and will not, it is thought, reopen its doors. The depositors, however, will probably be paid in fill The suspension 18 said to be due to dull collections on advances made by the bank.
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VIRGINIA NEWS. More houses have been built in Woodstock in the past three years than were built in the preceding 50 years. First Lieutenat John C. Gresham has bee 11 detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Blacksburg. James Dent, a fireman on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, yesterday fell on the coal in the tender, and broke his back. Hideath followed soon afterward. The accident occurred three miles north of Bach. anan. The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor near Peter-hurg, in this State, has suspended, and will not, it is thought, resume business again. The depositors, however, will probably be paid in full. The suspension is said to be due to dull collections on advan ces made by the bank.
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SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FATHER-Chas. Tyree, a well to do farmer, living on Little Brier creek, in West Virginia, has been arrested on a charge or incest preferred by his daughter, Telitha V. Tyree, aged 16. Telitha has an infant a month old, whose paternity she swears upon her father. QUEEN VICTORIA WORRIED BY HER SON-IN-LAWIt is rumored that Queen Victoria is again worried by the behavior of her son-in-law, the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt. According to the latest reports he is seeking still another matrimonial alliance, notwithstanding the troubles broug. about by his morganatic marriage with Mme. Kalamire. His latest fancy, It is said, is toward a lady who is connected with the ducal court at Darmstadt, but who is much his interior in rank. She is also very much younger than the grand duke and is said to be very beautiful. THE DUBLIN SCANDALS.-The Dublin jury were unable to agree to a verdict in the case of ex-Secretary Cornwell and Capt. Kirwan, who were tried jointly on an indictment for "conspiracy and soliciting.' The second trial of this case was postponed to the next commission, and the prisoners were set at liberty on providing suitable ball. James Pillar, who pleaded guilty to the various indictments for felonies and conspiricies against him, was sentenced Saturday to twenty years' penal servitude. A SENSATIONAL DIVORCE CASE-The Philadelphia Sunday Item publishes the particulars of a sensational divorce case instituted in that city, in which the plaintiff is Henry D. Gilpin, member of an aristocratic family, and a son of the late Charles Gilpin, who was the mayor of Philadelphia trom 1850 to 1854. The defendant, Mrs. Nellie Martyn Glipin, wife of the piaintiff, is a beaut woman, of excellent family, and only eighteen years of age. The parties were married two years ago, but the union was not a happy one, the Glipin family refusing to recognize Mrs. Gilpin. The plaintiff charges his wife with infidelity, and Gen. Jas C. Lynch, a distinguished volunteer officer of the late war, and now a promin nt business man of Philadelphia, is made co-respondent in the case. REMARKABLE FIND OF SILVER-The silver excitement in Ritchie county, W. Va., IS assuming tremendous proportions, several rich mines having been recently discovered in the valleys of Shore Run and Buck Run, near Cairo. The most valuable or these belong to the Rev. John Walters, Cyrus Dallon, John Ferribee and M. D. Bartlett. The mine of the Rev. Mr. Walters IS in operation and has a five-foot vein. A late assay shows $300 in silver and $11 in tead to the ton. The Bartlett mine comes next with $175 to the ton. The remaining mines are not SO rich, yielding only about $100 per ton. In digging a well on the farm of Widow Pool. near Calro, a piece of almost pure SIIver, measuring eight inches by live and weighing 15 pounds, was found. Two MORE BANK SUSPENSIONS.-The Webster County Bank, of Marshfield, Mo., has suspended, and C. F. Brooks has been appointed receiver. The liabilities are reported at $40,000, and assets estimated at from $15,000 to $25,000. All the school and county funds, amounting to about $15,000, were deposited in this bank. Speculation in grain Is said to be the cause of the failure.—The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, Va., has sus ended, and will not, It is thought, resume business again. The depositors, however, will probably be paid in full. ARREST OF COLLEGE PROFESSOR.-The Rev. James A. Towle, one of the faculty of Ripon college, was arrested at Milwaukee Saturday by Deputy United States Marshal Marshall on a charge of violating the custom laws. He was taken before Commisioner Bloodgood and bound over in the sum of $500 to await trial. The Rev. Dr. Towle has been a professor of Greek and Latin in Ripon college since 1876. It is alleged that he has systematically imported books from Germany and France, and by making affidavit that they were for use in the college and a part of the library belonging to the institution has avoided paying the duty upon them. It is said that the number of volumes imported in this manner and on which no import has been paid is nearly 200, and they are valued at nearly $1,000. Prof. Towle has a wife and two children in Ripon. The case will come up for trial at the next term of the United States court. FIGHT BETWEEN A WILDCAT AND A BULL DoG.-A fight between T. L. Montgomery's mountain wildcat and George Robinson's bull dog took place at Cannelton, W. Va., Saturday afternoon. The dog was put in a cage with the cat a few minutes after six o'clock. After a great deal of noise the dog attacked the cat, but was driven off. The cat then took a corner and 10ught the dog off, but finally followed it up to the center or the cage, the dog being driven back. As the dog was to Deat the cat in two ininutes, and as time was up, Referee Swan decided that th cat had won, and the dog was taken out. The fight was for $500 a side. A MURDERER PURSUED BY Dous.-A. V. Raleigh. conductor of a freight train on the Macon and Brunswick rafiroad, in Georgia, was kl led Saturday by Ell Taylor, a negro, striking him on the head with a light wood knot. The difficulty arose from Raleigh's reprimanding the negro for neglect of duty. Taylor took to the swamps, and IS being pursued by dogs. HANGED ON THE SCENE OF HIS CRIME.-A Mexican named Luciano Padillo, who was sent to State priso ID Nebraska from New Mexico, Was liberated a month ago. A week ago he assaulted a thirteen-
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Washington Fire & Marine, Boston $1,250 Glen's Falls 750 Westchester 1,000 Alabama 1,500 500 Merchants, Louisville 1,000 Vanderbilt, Memphis 1,500 Citizen's Mutual, Mobile Mobile Mutual 1,000 Southern 1,000 1,000 Royal, of Liverpool 1,000 Home Mutual, California Orient 1.000 Norwich Union 1,000 1,500 Northern, of Aberdeen and London Total $15,000 ON THE LUMBER. $1,000 Phoenix of Brooklyn 1,000 Pennsylvania of Pittsburg 1,500 Springfield Concordia 2,500 Howard, New York 1,000 Home of New York 1,500 1,500 German American, New York Westchester 1,500 1,500 Citizens, Pittsburg Detroit Fire and Marine 1,500 1,500 Washington Fire and Marine, Boston 1,500 Western Assurance, Toronto 500 Northern, of Aberdeen and London 1,500 Union, of Philadelphia 2,500 National, Hartford British American 2,500 1,000 Pennsylvania, of Pittsburg Mercantile, of Cleveland 1,000 2,500 Insurance Company of North America Total 29,000 ON THE SAW MILL. Northern of Aberdeen and London $1,500 Aetna Fire and Marine 1,500 1,500 Washington Fire and Marine 1,500 Southern, New Orleans Mobile Mutual 1,000 1,000 Factors, Memphis Citizens' Mutual, Mobile 1,000 1,000 Vanderbilt, Memphis 500 Merchants', Louisville Boatsman's Fire and Marine 1,000 East Texas 1,000 Alabama 1,000 1,000 Peoples', of Memphis 2,000 Insurance Company of North America 2,000 Peunsylvania Fire Norwich Union 1,000 Germania, New York 1,000 North British 2,500 German American 1,000 Allemania 1,000 Home, of New Orleans 1,000 1,000 American, of Wheeling 3,500 Humboldt, of Alleghany City Monongahela City, of Pittsburg and Birm2,500 ingham Total $30,000 ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. The body of Private Henry, of the Greely party, will be examined to-day by surgeons, to determine the manner of his death and how much of him was eaten by his surviving comrades. At Cooperstown, N. Y., Fennimore Clayton, afflicted with delirium tremens, yesterday shot and killed his two-year-old son and seriously hurt his wife and mother, in an attempt to kill them with a ball club. Robert T. Lincoln, secretary of war, is at Fortress Monroe, Va Rev. Patrick H. Terry, a well known Catholic minister, died at Chicago, last night. Miss Amelia Cornovon, of Duluth, committed suicide last Saturday night, by drowning in the lake. The body was recovered yesterday. The Wabash road will adopt the Mann boudoir car on its lines between St. Louis and Chicago this week. This is the first line in the west to adopt this car. The Dunbar Coke company, of Fayette county made a voluntary assignment Saturday. Liabilities, $35,000; assets $60,000. Archibald Sanford, or New York, a coachman stabbed a woman with whom he was living, sup, posed to be his mistress, yesterday morning. The woman will probably die. Fred White, of Altanta, Georgia, killed Eugene Robinson, of the same city, yesterday, Capt. Pratt, superintendent of the Indian training school, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, yesterday received seventy-seven scholars from the Pueblo tribes, ranging in age from 9 to 20 years. Thos. Huleng, of Bells Bend, Tenn., Saturday night shot and killed his young daughter, mis taking her for a burglar. The Bank of Windsor, Virginia, has suspended. Depositors will probably be paid in full. The Orchard Grove observatory at Weiss, New Hampshire, burned last night. Stephen Salisbury, L. L. D., died at Worcester last night. The military encampment at Milwaukee begins
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Virginia News Notes. FORTRESS MONROE. VA., August 25.-Bill Pressy (colored). who was shot last week near Hampton, died last night. A Petersburg telegram says: The Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, this State, has sus. pended, and will not, it is thought, resume business again. The depositors, however, will probably be paid in full. The suspension is said to be due to dull collections on advances made by the bank. A Roanoke special of Sunday says: James Dent, a fireman on the Shenandosh-Valley railroad, met with an accident at 10 o'clock this morning which cost him his life. He fell on the coal in the tender, and broke his back. His death followed soon afterward. The accident occurred three miles north of Buchanan. Dent was a single man, and was the solesupport of a widowed mother. His home was in Roanoke.
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The Legislature. Both Houses of the General Assembly have passed a bill re-enacting the old election laws existing before the passage of the bill at the last session, which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. The Governor has approved the bill. The Committee on Privileges and Elections have reported in favor of seating H. I. Lewis, Democrat, recently elected to the Legislature from King William county. There appeared to be no contest in this case. The two housess have passed the bill which prevents consol and 10-40 coupons being capitalized dollar for dollar. It proposes to remedy the defect J Judges Bond and Hughes found in the Riddleberger bill. This one act saves the State one or two million dollars. The State Board of Education reported that they were unable to make a report asked for by the General Assembly, because of their inability to have a meeting of the Board on account of the engagements of Attorney-General Blair. Mr. McCormick took occasion to state that the Attorney-General was junketing around the State, parading himself at political meetings, and read an extract from the Richmond Whiq to sustain his statement. On Wednesday the Legislature adjourned to meet again on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Salome Whitman, a handsome young woman, has just been convicted and sent to the penitentiary, in Pennsylvania, for horse stealing. The Bank of Windsor, in Isle of Wight county, has suspended, due it is said by the depression in the price of peanuts, advances having been made to farmers. It is said that every dollar will be collected and nobody will suffer loss. Richards, Fauber and Fry, were recently convicted of burning a house belonging to Samuel Windel's estate in Shenandoah, and were sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. A white man residing near Stephenson's Depot, named Geo. W. Hooper, was arrested last week charged with setting fire to the Aiken organ factory. He waived an examination and was bailed to answer an indictment if found. At a picnic near Harper's Ferry, yesterday, Bob Hughes struck a woman with a stick, inflicting injuries which it IS reported resulted fatally. Both are colored. Hughes was arrested and lodged in jail at Charlestown.
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LATER NEWS FOUR Hungarians-two men and their wives-were found with their skulls fractured in a shanty near Dubois, Penn. Robbery was the motive of the crime. A FIRE which broke out in a stable at Cynthiana, Ky., resulted in the death of one man-a stable hand-and thirteen blooded horses valued at $25,000. A SERIOUS negro uprising was reported to Atlanta from Dawson, Terrell county, Ga., and the governor of Georgia ordered several companies of militia to the scene of disturb ance. A train conveying the military to Dawson was wrecked near that town by ob. structions that had been placed upon the track. The trouble grew out of a determination on the part of the colored people to prevent the hanging of a negro who had been sentenced to death for assaulting a white woman. THE Bank of Windsor, at Windsor, Va., has suspended, but the depositors will prob. ably be paid in full. INVESTIGATION shows that millions of acres of the public domain in the West have been illegally fenced in by cattle companies, while additional millions have been fraudulently entered at the government land offices, and thus been taken possession of. In many cases entire counties have been illegally fenced in or fraudulently entered. A WORLD'S convention of the Young Men's Christian associations has been held in Berlin. about sixty delegates from America attending. ADVICES from Western Africa say that smallpox is raging at Coomassie, in Ashantee. The king of the country recently died, and 300 subjects were killed at the funeral in his honor. A new king has been appointed, and the Ashantee chiefs have asked that the country be annexed to the English possession because of his notorious cruelty. CHOLERA is on the increase in Italy, numerous deaths and many new cases being reported in V arious places daily. THE Chinese arsenal at Foochow was destroyed aftera three hours' bombardment by Admiral Courbet's French squadron. The firing began at two o'clock in the afternoon and ceased at eight P. M. Seven Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped. Only one Chinese battery replied to the French fire, but did no damage. The European settlement was undisturbed. A FIRE in Rawa, Austria, destroyed 300 houses and rendered 3 000 people homeless. Fire has also destroyed 114 dwellings and 327 farms in and about the large market town of Rozwadow, Austrian Galicia. The harvest, which had just been gathered, was all consumed.