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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.
