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'; j k '*^i^^j8j8ijjdMMSSjSB^SttttB^Bfihifijftjjj^^j^fcjjflMBjBj|^BjB^^ -? --? CRqEL DAYg .... ? TIIE RECENT EVICTIONS IN OOUNTY MAYO. The story of the eviction of th^ Deuipacys from thoir little home in County Mayo, Ireland, has been briefly told by tetegraph, as has also the fact that they were restored by privato subscriptions. The Connaught Tetegraph gives the details of tho eviction, as follows: Tlte Dempaey family has been for eighty years past tenants on the Blosse estate, and about thirty years ago it was removed from one portion of it to Loonamore, where it has been toiling for that period, paying Blosse annually a sum of ?26 as rent. The Government valuation is ?21 10 shillings.? Detnp8ey. OWED ONE YEAR'S RENT in May last, and at tho following County Court sitting the landlord took a decree for possession on aeoount of the non-wuHyeut. S The cost* RmtranWtf tO"k66ffVjE7, mixing a" total of ?33. This Dempsey was unable to pay, and the sheriff attended at his home on tho 15th of November last for the purnnart nf PVtof i r?rr Ir I , uiui. A/SUI|)9UJf >VU3 1U a most helpless condition. His mothor, ngod 80 yoars, depended upon him for support, together with a young wife aud five helpless children, tho oldest of whom is only seveu years of ago, and three of them suffering from soarlatina of a malignant typo. Owing to tho slate of tho children tho sheriff could not ohrry out the eviction, aud withdrew, stating that on that day week he would return, and charging Deinpscy ?2 FOR. HIS VISIT. Yesterday's proceedings surprised everybody, for although more ample arrangements were made, and a large number of police wero drnfted in from Castlobar, Clarouiorris ^ Belcarra, Balla, and Ballyglass, no one oven suspected that tho cvictiou was to lako place. Tho sheriff loft Wcstport by the 9 30 A. M. train, and on arriving at Castlebar a party of aruicd police, numbering ten, entered the train aud went to Manulla.? T^mj sheriff then scut for the constable, who learned for tho first time his destination. Tho police inarohed off toward Loonamore, and the sheriff waited for sometime at the station. So strict was the privacy maintained that tho sheriff on being asked at Manulla whither ho was going declined to tnll A : ? ? w? uuuo^juuuujf UIIIVVU UU WI11UI1 Mr. Tandy, J. P., the agent of Sir Robert Blosso, was seated. The sheriff took his scat ou the vehicle and drovo off. Ou overtaking tho police the horse walked slowly for a long distauco immediately baforo them. The appcaraucc presented was something like that of A MILITARY FUNKRAL. Ou arriving the sheriff informed tho now distrautid Dempsey that he had come to execute tho decree. Dempsey pleaded for time to eudeavor to procure the money by some means at Balla, and this tho sheriff agreed to, but beforo Dempsey returned the work of eviction had commenced. Thcro wero at least fifty or sixty police present, headed by Suh Inspector Pepper. The morning was extremely cold, aud thero was a'severe frost. Tho children, mother and aged grandmother, wero turned out by the bailiffs, and cried loudly and bitterly during iue sau ceremony, i nc cuiiurcn, who were barefooted and poor by clad, rushed iuto the houso several times from tho cold, but wero again and again led nut by the bailiffs. The beds and furuituro were next hurriedly thrown out, tho houso was locked up, aud the sheriff, tho agent, and tho polico turned from the scene, leaviug tho unfortuuuto victims behind, still sobbiug bitterly uud Bill V KK1NO WITH OOI.D. . Mr. Thomas lloilly and the broiled-hearted Dempsoy arrived, having failed to procure the money. A fire was lighted in a field, urouud which tho family seated themselves. Tho sheriff boforo leaviug hauded Dcmpsey the ?2 which ho received on his former visit. A noighbor of Dempscy's, struck with pity, came up aud offered tho fumily the shelter of his houso if Mr. llcilly would obtain for hiin the consent of tho ngeut (!) as ho would bo ufraid to allow thoin in.? This Mr. lleilly refusod to do, and he returned to Bulla, stating that he would take tho family to his own residence. At 8 o'clock in tho evening he and a party from Bulla arrived with cars, and the unhappy family bade adieu to its homestead, probably forever. The whole procoediogs wero of a most rovolting nature. TIIE CRUELTY Of IT. Tho following particulars aro taken from tho Mayo Examiner : All (ho signs of fear ^ and apprehension operating upou their inW nocent little minds wore .painfully evident on tho children's faces. One poor little follow was in bed and awoko after ho on tered the house. The playful dreams of childhood were soon forgotten?his full, bright eye boheld. the grim roality, And, affrighted and narrous, he made for the side of bis old granny. ? * ? The silcnco, tho agony of mind, depicted in the poor little household at this trying time, fur exceeds this noc?ssarily hasty description. Without wore heapod many mute but significant memorials of what was passing? . tho big rod household chest, bed, chairs pots, dolf, bedding and the poor old grandmother's cot. Tho fine old woman bore it woll for a long time. In tho course of tho heartronding scone the poor creature cheer fall announced tho good news that the cowy calved?that sho had a fine heifer calf.? Ah ! but later on tho poor old woman failed and almost fainted?her husband, his father and grandfather, had boen tenants on the estate. She wept bitterly, and Till CHILDREN CRIED. A correspondent of the London Freeman ^ telegraphing froui Castlebar, says: "On arriving at tho scene of the eriotion ol Detnpsoy, his wife, grandmother (aged seventy-eight,) and five helpless children, the pioture presentod was touchingly painful and heartrending. Kvory psrticlo of forni of Loonatnoro; (he cattlo, row, cVypUSt' tended, ant) tho family having nought the ' shelter of the hillside, which was fully ex- posod to the piercing and'cHHIy. blasts of thuso cold December days They subsequently had to take refugo iu u fort iu close Eroximity to the bouse from which they ad been evicted. To witness tho grandmother and children huddled together id this exposed situation, with tbo dying embers of a fire, was a scene more easily imagined titan described. Having interviewed,, the old woman regaiding tho eviction, she informed me that it was "troublesome times" with her, her daughter having been evicted, and another daughter of hers having died recently, leaving six orphans in her charge. Dcntpsey informed mo that ho was not aware of. the eviotion occurring until the constabulary and sheriff canto on his premises. The nmouut due was one year's rent, yhalf wtnob II? iffwyjt Uj Wat, was peremptorily refused. The only force at the scene to-day were three of tho c^n smwuiary, wno watcned tho pliotograpliing of the house, the grandmother, children nod j furnituro, whloh wcro mingled together on . tho promisoB. j EVICTION IN FAMINE TIME. The Women of Knockrickard Defying Bayonets and Sabres to reach a Process Server. An exciting encounter occurred between j the people and tho con stabulary, at a place [ called Knockrickard, near Claromorris, County Mayo. On Frid ty a process-server, j named Langley, was severely huudicd by ] the people, and his processes taken froui t him and destroyed, lie was stripped and c left nude in a field, from which*he had to j make his way to the nearest sonstabulary 8 barrack for clothes. Iu consideration of j this outrage the authorities determined to jmake an effort to serve tho rcuiaiudcr of f the processes on Saturday. All the availa- s ble police wero concentrated at Ballyglass, | tho nearest police barracks. Lan^ley had i been provided with copies of tho stolen pro- t cesses and accompanied the police. At the t Village of Curry the police were put through f a series of manoeuvres, even to examining s their rifles and pouches by the, sub inspec- j tors in charge, (Mr. T. S. McSheehy, 11. M., 8 was in command of tho whole party,) and s set forward for Kuockrickard. They had j' not gone more than a hundred yards before i r i? j; j -? uuugicjr umuuveruu mat an mo processes t. exiicpt one had becu taken from his pocket. w A coustablo was scut back to inquire about u tlio missing documents, but his inquiries j, wore met with mingled cheering, laughter j, and groans. Langley's story about the |, theft is regarded with suspicion, and it is a stated that the only process ho rctaiucd after Y destroying, ns is thought, the others, was p for a mau who had becu his bitter enemy %i for yonra. At Curry the crowd which fol- Y lowed the police numbered about three j hundred men, women and boys, but before Crcgawu was reached it hud increased uutil t there could uot havo been less than three t hundced women and about the same num- u her of men and boys. It was at this place ? that the constabulary met with the first " serious opposition. A small body of thirtyfive or forty men hud been sent forward in Y advance of the main body, but they were c kept at bay by about four hundred women, t who stood on the road loading to Knock- p rickard and refused to let them pass. _ The arrival of the main body of police 0 was received with groaus and shouts of t] defianco, and cries of "Where is Langley ?" ? The process server haviug been discovered j in tho midst of the police all the women ? made an indiscriminate charge with tho view ot scouting him and his precious bur- ^ den. A scene of tho wildest confusion ( ensued. The sub-inspectors drew their swords t and ru?hcd into the midst of tho women, ( most of whom wero barefooted and bare- ] headed. A young woman named Mary ( Fahy received a terrible gash on tho back ( of the baud. Another woman was wounded j by a bayonet thrust in the arm, whilo scv- ( cral were knocked down, trampled upon, ( their faces blackened nnd their gnrmcnts ( torn. Most of tho constabulary behaved | manfully under tho circumstances, but a . few exhibited a cruel savagery which was | shocking to behold, thrusting at the breasts of the women with the butt nds of their rifles. Tho charge to capture Langley was repulsed, and tho resident magistrate remonstrated with the women. "Wo have a duty to perform," ho said, "and thought it be disagreeable, yet we still must do "it." The men in tho meantimo stood motionless, looking on and inciting the women to resistance. A voice from the crowd cried, "We don't want to do anything to the police at all." Another person said, "Every policouian had a mother liko us, and they . ought not to be doiDg the dirty work they ( are at to-duy " A third man exclaimed, "Let them stand or fire"and wo will do tho same." Mr. MoSheehy, tho resident magistrate, then said, "Retire, now, and let us do our duty. I should bo sorry to seo a hair of vour heads hurt." A voice shouted. "We are starving; we want something to eat, And here is what wo are getting." After some further altercation the magistrate ordered the wotneu to be removed. A scone then followed which almost baffles description Many of tho constabulary draggod tho women by the hair, thfow them on tho ground, and one young stripling aotunily struck with the butt end of hfs riflo a poor old woman. Several moro received cuts on their hands ond heads, and one girl named Hriilnmt McHnrn ranaivarl itMn vnunrl ? p> - >.wf. od tho ohoek. A man named Carroll was wourded in (lie hand. At last tho women were removed, the doublo line of police wae formed, and Langloy potted the notioe on the door. The police then left for their ' tevoral stations. i Girls wear boys' vests np this way, bat I down in Texas you can see hoys with a Galveston. distressing account.*of the sufferings of^hi poor iti Counaught, aud explains why it I that general a\d is neceesary : Swao, Jauuary 14, 18$Q. v My Dear Lord : It becomes uiy urged duty to malco known to your Lordship, and through your favor, to the Clergy and th( faithful of your Dioocso, the destitutiot which now uuhappily .prevails in every pa? isli of this Diocese of Klphin, aud whiofc every day assumes uiorc alarming propor lions. During the last four years of agri cultural depression our people gradually Ml their means and fell into debt; and witjita the year which has just closod the failutt .4' L - * ' ui crops, mo exceptional depreciation <Ji live stock of every kind, and the great in<& tality in cattle and sheep, reduced the gjrcfi majority of the tenant class to extreme dou? ty/ AttHo pMMM WBwl tkey^a'onelflW money nor credit, nor the coarsest food tc support life. Tbo few wet, unwholesome potatoes, saved from the blighted crop of last year, nro uow consumed. For weeks past very many of the poor bavo sold or pawned their last articles of olothing, even iheir very beds, in order to buy a little Inlian meal, which they could not get on iredit. In fact, famino is rapidly overipreading this proviuce, and tho debility jrought on by unwholesome, insufficient bod, during the past months, will render ts work of death rapid and irresistible. For rnauy years past we havo had in this U-futcd couutry a system of'Poor Law Reief; but, as your Lotdship may be aware, he man, aud tho family of the man, who iccupics so much us one-quarter aero of aud, be it in tho bog or bn the uiountaiu ide, is excluded from all relief under his law, cither within or without the workiousc. The law will allow hiui and his umily to starve if he does not qualify hiuitlf for relief by giving up bis house and and, and becoming an inmate of the worktouse. Now, as over ninety per cent, of hose now suffering,or lapsiug into dcslituimi nrr* ctnnll lunrlKnl-lftro 13.? ^ ? * ?.~ uu..... lutiuiiuiuuio, x uui jjuiy ivuilCI or them would simply mean that they hould give up forever their poor but chershed homes, and that they should break the acred ties of family lifo, separating, as they hould at the workhouse door, the husbuud roni the wife, the parent from the children, t would mean, moreover, that they should ithcr remain for life, pining in idleness fithiu their dreary, uuhcallhy prison, or, fter leaving it, lead ever after tho lives of clpless vagruutts. But uo; our puro, warmcarted pcasautrv will not abandon the ouies they were born in ; they wiHdotseprate from all they hold dear on earth; they rill cling to their homes and to each other ill death, and starve rattier than unbuilt to iut.aa.o.1 ?? ar Ucstitutiou. Thatfc*/ ras, really, though not of course avowctity, cviscd by the Laudlord Legislature in Lonon for the cheap nud easy wholesale cvieion of the small tenant class, which it horoughly effected ift 1847. It is still jaintaiucd iu the Law, to tho eternal dis;race of the English Government, for the auto unhallowed purpose. Her Majosty's Government has been, ritliin the last four months, repeatedly ailed on to provido employment, and hrough employment the uteaus of support, or the people of tbo destitute couutics, by iromoting and undertaking drainage and thcr reproductive works, but, so far, it has icithcr given nor promised such cuiployucut; it seems determined to leave the ives of the people dependent on the aforcaid Poor Law Act and its Relief System. In this sad eoudition we have but one neans of saving our people from wholesale sviction aud starvation?au appeal to Chiisian sympathy for prompt and generous aid. Jroat efforts will no doubt be made hero iu Ireland by those .vho are themselves above listress. Several thousand pounds will also some to us from Euglaud; but all that will >e inadequate to mitigate the distress in ono jase out of ten. It is the ever-generous )ffering8 of the millions of our fcllow-counrymen in America that wo must chiefly rcy for saving the lives of our people. And jven with your most abundant gifts, the tielp of the State will still bo necessary, if ,1?e people are to be kept in their homes, ind if their lauds are to be tilled aud seedid this spring in a way to save them from mother famine iu tho*comiug year. I therefore appeal with the fullest confilenco to your Lordship and to your Diocese, in tho name of my destitute flock, and of ill who need rolicf in our afflicted country] inu i imploro you to corno speedily to out lid. In this Dioceso, and I believe throughout the Province of Connaugbt, there is in each Parish a Relief Coinmittoo who undcrtako to inquiro into all eases ol destitution before administering relief. Il is through those committees I will distri bute the offering you will have the charitj to entrust to me. The fervent prayers of our suffering poor and of their clergy, will bring down frou lleavon blessings a hundred-fold on all oui benefactors. I have the honor to remain, my deai Lord, with most affectionate respect, you Lordship's devoted brother in Christ, f L. Gillooly, C. M., # liishop of Elphin, Most Rev. T)r. Lynch. Mayor Courtesy desires to niako a re mittance to Irclnud. on account of th Charleston Relief Fund, on Saturday, and re quests the Ward Committees to turn ove their collections to tho City Treasurer b noon on that day. It is hoped that th contributions will continue to come in dc ring the ensuing week, in order that a sc< ond remittance may be made on the onst ing Saturday.?Newt and Courier. Notwithstanding all tho modern improvi merits of husbandry, the matrimonial ha vest it still gathered with the cradle an thrashed by band. MMl'r THK NORTH CAROLINA HE ggjTTjiMBpft emigrants. |n He a negroes -continue to arrive 11Sr^Tth over 2,300 have come ia uiaking money enougli 3 necessaries of life for him gelvguHj^w.. In one night 150 of t it deJauS^^Hrttcs arrived, aud 400 more arc \ ten days. Ouo of these 'j fW^^^^^^Bbosomcd himself to a Scntijfi^^^^^^Hkcsterduy. The conversation ? you from North Carolina." come here ' fj^Hgj^^^Hftrry and Peter C. Williams I p^HK^^^Hjfcud said get ready and go i 1 to.ludSfsHEHKbey 'lectionccred just as they s.Ldcr i(* Jvfl^Bttnies. They promised that H if 1 iaiia I would reeeive from . j U> $a3F*By for any kind of labor, and . j tt-.t i^dHk provided with a house to i "Wen, dey said that there were 500 i houses built and furnished for us j that we " would be given bcdclothing and suits aud i a uiilk cow." ^ "Were yott'to get work ?" "Oh, yes, sir; w? was given the privilege of farming for ourselves or working at $3 per day. They said wo could buy good land at $1.50 to $2 per acre, and that provisions would be furnished us for seven months, and thost who did not buy land would bo hired by men as soon as they arrived in the city, right from the trains." "You have found this true ?" "No, sir: no indded. As I stand before the Lord, not ono word is as they said." "You obtained work ?" "I aiu't heard of it." "Tell uie, now," said the reporter, "how much money have you made since you arrived, nine days ago'/" "Ten eowts, that is every ccut, as true as I am here." "Havo you a family ?" "A wife and six head of children." "Havo you money " lYcll, 1 is got forty cents what I brung with me, and nothing to cat, no wood and no clothing. We sleep on the bare floor. They told mc wo did not have to burn wood hero." "What was it Perry told you about being Republicans ?" "Samuel Perry told mo that we must be valiant-hearted Republicans; that they wanted no Democrat niggors iu the party, and that we irtust all show our principles and vote tho Republican ticket." "Of course you agreed 1" "We all told hiui we would do as wo had been doing, and that was to voto that tick et. 1 want to say to you hero they told us we would bo froo up here, aud I want to say wo wan as free in North Carolina.?; There welkad work ana all wo could cat, and ] ?.--J? ? ''Did they not bull-doze and intimidate you ?" "Not as I have heard ou. I worked with my master seven years, and he was a Democrat, and he never onco asked me how I voted." Of the 150 families now in this city, fully ouc-third arc sick with contagious diseases. The city dispensary has turuished for tho past month an average of twenty prescriptions per day for these. Along Prospect, West Michigau, St. Clair aud South Mississippi streets may be found in each house three to live families, and always two] and sbmctimcs as many as five, sick persons. A prominent colored man told a reporter that not a single negro had oino to this town but understood that he was to vote the llcpubltcau ticket. Since the publication of tho article showing the sickness, poverty and death among the immigrants, the committee from the Christian Aid Sohml l^.rrir and nthopu in Washington to send the negroes in suiall numbers, and they had been coming in lotsofsix and ten families and therefore had not attracted public attention. In tho northern part of the city the negroes are n burden to tho people. Not a day passes but that they are around asking for aid in all forms?food, clothing and fuel.? Some have even solicited small pieces of carpet in which to wrap their babes at night. None have received more than 80 cents a day and others of the few who havo obtained littlo jobs are paid but 40 aud 50 cents.?Indianapolis Sentinel. Remedy fou Fat People.?The real . remedy for corpulenco is not in medication or in drugs, or in uostrums of any sort, but in diet. A tTAntlnmnn ronnntlv nlnnerl him. self on a diet of raro beef and toasted bread, discarding all articles containing suf gar, and all in which niillc was an ingredi. ent, also all vegetables composed chiefly of . starch, as tho potato. In a few days his , weight sensibly decreased and cootiuued to decrease, while he suffered not the slightest inconvenience from the change, but on tht .contrary found his power for work largely r augmented. ? .?. , r A notable event in Chattanooga, Tcnn. r society was the entertainment successfully oonductod there by a number of young la dies on the 8th ult. Accompanying th< invitation was a notice asking "the ploosun of tho company" of the young man witt tho request to "please let us know, if agree e ablo when to call for you." None of th< ( young men had any previous engagements r and readily obtained consent of thoir pa rents to attend. Tho ladies called in car^ ringos. After the dauoing the young mei ( were ofTil$d feminine arms and esoorte< j down town to a restatflnnt, where they wer , regaled bandsomely. Young man, if you are ever asked whi 5- happiness is, and you don't know, just nay : r is the possession of good health and a do id lar that waa left after paying nil you debts. DEFERRED HEWS ITEMS. Victims or Dime Novels.?Savannah, J.vnu ary 28.?A private telegram was received here ? to-day to apprehend Dennis and Patterson, two I boys of fourteen years of nge, who ran away . from Wadcsboro', N. C. They are victims ot , Dime-novel reading. ! Norfolk's Opportunity.?The Norfolk Viri ginian urges tlio completion of a connecting link between Careysville, Tenn., and Danville Junction, (on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad,) which would give an all-rail line between Cincinnati nnd Norfolk, Va., the distance being only 720 miles, against 980 miles via Chattanooga, Knoxvillc nud Bristol. ? The Land Laws of Enolano.?London, January 29.?The Manchester Guardian's London, correspondent says that, among the principal subjects to be presented by the Government for legislation at the coming session of Parliament are the abolition of the law of primogeniture and the simplification ef the transfer of land. T^kNf.w Orleans Duel.?New Orleans. Jann complaint against the principals and seconds'In the Burke-Hearsey duel. Tlic principnls were bailed in $500 each and the seconds in $'250 each. The penalty under the law for lighting a duel is $200 fine and imprisonment for two years, and for being a sccoud $100 fine and imprisonment for one year. A Hope ron Old Mail Contractors.?Senator Bailey, from the postoffice committee, reported with amendments the Senate joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay Southern mail contractors for carrying mails prior to May 31, 1801, upon presentation of proof that they have not been paid either by the Confederate or United States Governments. Placed on the calendar. Thf. Gallows Gets its Due.?Savannah, January 28.?John Johnson, a negro, convicted of the murder of Daniel McDcrmott on the 17th of March, 1878, after two trials, two reviews of the case by the Supreme Court and two sentences of death, was brought into the Superior Court this morning and sentenced a third time, aud will be hanged on FriJay, 27th February next. The crimo was of unparalleled atrocity, and legal technicalities could not cheat the gallows of its dues. ,?. -A Shi.otimo i?viiiv 1* Tr?n ?Galveston, January 20.?A special to the News from Sherman says that a parly of drunken roughs while crenting a disturbance in a bagnio were ordered to leave by City Marshal Ball. Alf Johnson rofuscd to go and Ball ejected him.' When outside Johnson drew a pistol and shot Ball in the breast, Ball seized Johnson's pistol and drawing his own weapon shot Johnson dead. Johnsou's brother nod others then shot at Ball, one shot cutting his face and the powder burning his eyebrows and blinding him. Ball lies in a critical condition. . Liability or Mercantile Agencies.?New Orleans, January 29.?Tito jury in tho case of Schmidt & Seigler vs. R. G. Dunn & Co.'s mercantile agency to-day returned a verdict for $1,000 in favor of the plaintiffs. The case attracted the general attcution of the merchants. and it is believed that if the verdict is sustained by the highest courts it will establish the responsibilities of mcrcan'ilo agencies for losses reports and CTie4rentrffc hy ..reason of^erroncous this oass Dunn & Co. rated an irresponsible firm very high, and failed to inform the plaintiffs, who asked for a special report, that their information was obtained from members of the firm inquired about. Relying on Dunn & Co.'s report, the plaintiffs sold a bill of goods on short time to the firm in question, who failed to pay for them?hence the suit. Turn Anotrr if Fair Pi.ay.?Democratic Senators who Take Care of their Own: Senator Eaton' son, clerk to committee on foreign relations $ 2,200 Senator Morgan's son, clerk to coiumitte on rules 2,100 Senator Vouchees' son, clerk to committee of House of Representatives 2,000 Senator Voorhecs's son, No. 2, clerk to library committee 2,100 Senator Vance's sou, clerk to committee on enrolled bills 2,190 Senator Johnson's son, clerk to committee on agriculture 2,190 Senator Johnson's nephew, Senate clerkship .. 2,190 Senator Withers's son, clerk to commit tee on pensions 2,190 Senator Wallace's son, clerk to committee on revision of laws 2,190 Senator McDonald's son, clerk to committee on public lands 2,190 Senator Saulsbury's nephew, clerk to committee on elections 2,190 Total ?'23,920 Tiik Bitbsixo of tiib Charmer..-?New York, January 28.?A New Orleans special gives the followiug particulars of the burning of the steamer Charvier, belonging to the New Orleans and Red River Transportation Company, on Sunday last five miles above the mouth of the Atchafalayn. The steamer had on board 2,105 bales of cotton, sixty barrels of molasses and a lot of sundries, all of which were destroyed. The fire was first seen bursting out beneath the second tier of cotton and in a moment the whole boat was one sheet of flame. The pilot stood at his post and headed the boat for the shore ; but for his coolness the loss of life would have been very great, 104 passengers being on board.? IVhen the boat reached shore planks were immediately shoved out, yet such was the heat of the fire, and the haste of those aboard to savc themselves, that many jumped overboard. All the passengers were saved. The lost were Wilf liam Miller, cabin boy, David Morgan, pantryman, Charles Johns >n aud John Johnson, cooks, \ as. ni i %# - ? ? . a. marjr r lowers nnu .nary Hamilton, cnnmner' maids, Win. Cororaiugs, fireman, and one Roust. about name unknown. The cargo was valued al , $120,000. tunek Siiicidrs in 24 Houhs.?Columbia, Jan uary 28.?Edwin D. Connor, of Cokesbury, Ab beville County, committed suicide at that plnci to-day by shooting himself in the neck with a pistol. The net was committed in the rear oi his brolhei's store, death ensuing in about twe minutes. The deceased was about 24 years ot age and was the son of Hon. F. A. Connor, rep rcsenlntive from Abbeville in the Legislature o: 1876-77. No cause can be assigned for the raqh act ex cept thM the deceased was suffering from de pression consequent on dissipation.?Cor. New and Courier. Atlanta, January 28.?John Koerber, o Virginia, lately removed to this city, commitlei , suicide last night by sending a bullet from * pistol through his head, lie attempted suicid e a few days since by taking poison, but was rei cued from death by his attending physician.Loss of property and strong drink were Ih causes of the rash act. ;t NonroLKS January 28.?Chief of police Bei > son committed suioide in his private room at a early hour yesterday morning by blowing ot ir his brains with a pistol. Ceuso, aberration < mind resulting from domestic trouble. A Conflict of Racks.?Richmond, Jaunary '28.?Telegrams received here to-day report intense excitement in Shenandoah County over a collision between white and colored laborers at Columbia Furnace, near Edinburgh. Sheriff Stickley of that county has telegraphed the Governor for troops to quell the riot, and the Governor has ordered Capt. Mngrudcr of the Woodstock military company to put his command at the disposal of that otticsr and Commonwealth's attorney Allen, for the preservation of the peace. The trouble grew out of the substitution of colored for while laborers in Columbia Furnace. Reinforcements Ordered.?Richmond, January 28.?Later telegrams from Shenandoah County report that an attack was made on the negroes at Liberty Furnace last night and two men wounded. The rioters then dispersed. All is quiet now, but trouble is npprehended and more troops are asked for. The Governor has ordered the Winchester Light Infantry to the scene of disturlance with directions to report to the sheriff. A Colored Duel.?Savannah enjoyed the sensation of a duel last Wftek hpf U'PPn f urn nnl. - i? nw ui ii w"iniw wrBfi rrohablj fat Ally wounded. It seems, says the Morning Neu>s, that Tom Clark and Charles Houston, two colored men, between whom illfeeling had long existed, met at the store, where a number of other negroes had gathered, and got to drinking. The old quarrel was renowed between Clark and Houston, and the former, who had his gnn with him proposed that Houston go and get his gun and they settle tbeir difficulty by an exchange of shots. Houston, who lived in the neighborhood, hastened home and, procuring his gun, returned to the scene.? Ground was marked off and the combatants faced, when, without any further preliminaries, both fired simultaneously and both fell at the same time. The guns were heavily charged with buckshot. Clark was shot in the left side and breast, some of the shot, it is presumed, entering tlio lung. He was brought to the eity and carried to t ie office of Dr. Chisholm, who examined his wound, and found it lobe very serious, and he was sent to the colored infirmary.? Houston, who received three or four allots in the body, two in the abdomen, was carried off by his friends, and was believed to be in a dying condition. ? * Among the half-doxcu passengers who occn-' pied the stage coach that left the Mexican town of Guanajuato, bound south, at 3 o'clock on the morninir nf ih* Inoi ICflnB, trOnK flcn^r ?mJ Co?p^? t.r?*a 1'k* air was a nipping and an eager air, but the men from the States sat on top of the coach, haTiDg beside them two Winchester rifles and any quantity of ammunition. This precautionary measuro proved a wise one, for just at daybreak a harumscarum trample of horses was heard along th? roadside, two musket balls whizzed one after the other over their heads, and the demand te surrender came in hoarse, emphatic tones. The driver, as though paralyzed, stopped the mulea | instantly. Some twenty banditti were seen in the dim light?much more clearly than were Sir Jack's men in buckram?and every highwayman had his gun unslung. But no sooner had Senter and Green lifted their rifles than two of the robbers fell, at which unexpected resistance the whole troop retreated with precipitation. The plucky lads pulled off their coat6 and gek ready for a second attack, which came in a moment, the Mexicans charging with a yell like* that of the Commanches and just as blood curduiiCu -siJLJor tiiAt V,u?r^?'TiViti mauc, fio quiet intervals being of a few seconds' duration only. Green was shot in the shoulder, but kept his post, and a flesh wound made Senter that much the more positive in his resistance. Both bent over on the top of the coach, their heads close together and llieir breath coming thick and fast. When the robbers at last withdrew they left five of their number dead and the carcasses of four horses blocked the way. After the fight Senter took a survey of the inside of the coach. One of the passengers, a Spaniard. had thrown bin revolver out of the win (low; another, a Mexican, had wrapped his bend in a baket, and as lady passenger had spent the trying time on her knees. A Young Lady's Tootii in an Old Man's Head.?A Chicago dentist has recently transferred a grinder from the mouth of a pretty young lady to the corresponding orifice of a man of middle age. This man was unwilling to wear a plate to support a single tooth, and the dentist suggested the transplanting of a molar from a living subject. Five weeks afterward there presented herself a young lady whose teeth were too many for her jaw. She could eat better than she could talk. One of her teeth waa removed, placed in glycerine aud kept at blood heat until the other patient could be summoned ; and then it was transferred to his jaw and tied to the adjacent teeth. By the third day the doctor was satisfied, from tho lack of inflammation and the freedom from pain, that the operation would be successful. On the niuth day the ligatures wcro removed, and on the fourteenth the tootb was quite firm ; from that time on it con-~ tinued to grow firmer in its attachment to the jaw, until at the end of six weeks it was as useful as its neighbors. In color and size the matching was nearly perfect. The only difference between the transplanted tooth and the original one was in the shape of tho roots; that of the latter was singler while tho former had a double root, but tho socket could hardly have bocn bettor filled. Some Things to Disbelieve.?When a man advertises for a partner, and wants a young man to put in a small investment of one hundred or fivo hundred dollars and promises to him a realization of fifty or one hundred per cent profit, don't believe it. When a man offers to givo gold watches or jewelry.worth fifty to one hundred dollar* e j.ii .1 >i i i: xuu nn uuu uuiiiir^ uuij t uuiiuvu iv. v? lien a uihu [ offers to give away knowledgo of tbo utmost r value for the cure of consumption, and any > and all diseases, by merely sending a threecent to prepay postage, don't believe it, J. When a man proposes to do bis utmost to make every ono else rich, and looks to other . people's interest more than his own, don't - believe it. When a man offers to give you ' something of great value for something of less value?in other words, to give you f something for nothing, don't believe it.? J Many presons advertise on purpose to filch e young men of money gained by hard labor, i- and before entering into any speculation - which- may bo offered you, take advnntago > of the many means at your command and ascertain tho faota with refcrenoe to the proposed business before you invoat, and j" thus save your money and assist in effcct>f ually breaking up swindling establishments. 1