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    Newport, October 3.—The American historian, George Bancroft, celebrated his 80th anniversary at his summer residence at this place to-day. During the day a large number of personal and ...

    Article : 217 words
  3. THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN SHIPPING.

    The National Convention of Shipowners which meet in Boston this week (says the NEW YORK HERALD of October 9) will have no more important subject to consider than the striking decline of ...

    Article : 425 words
  4. FATAL MINING ACCIDENT.

    San Francisco, Cal., September 17.—A despatch from Virginia City says: "An accident at the Consolidated Imperial mine last night resulted in the death of nine men, land one other ...

    Article : 304 words
  5. ENCOUNTER WITH CONVICTS.

    San Francisco, Cal., September 24, 1880.—A Boise City (Idaho) despatch says:—Six conviots, while at work half a mile from the Penitentiary overpowered the guard, obtained arms and fled, ...

    Article : 78 words
  6. SUICIDE THROUGH SHAME.

    Samuel J Ramsey, a brother of Mr. George Ramsey, of Illinois, and n well-to-do farmer of Clayton township in Burlington county, North America, died at an early hour yesterday from ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. FATAL STEAMBOAT DISASTER.

    Natchez, Miss., September 24, 1880.—The steamer Florence Meyer, from Cincinnati, struct a snag, about 3 o'clock this morning, at Bullitt's Bayou, 12 miles above Natchez, and sunk to the ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. A SUBMARINE VOLCANO.

    Washington, October 4.—Commander Huntington, of the United States steamer Alert, in an report to the Navy Department just received, says that while on a surveying cruise in the ...

    Article : 322 words
  9. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

    Milwaukee, WIS., September 20.—A despatch to the SENTINEL says:—"A mainden lady, named Nancy Heywood, living with her brother in the town of Rockland, Manitowoe county, was ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. A REVOLTING RACE.

    In a work entitled " The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century," Jules Verne gives the following account of certain islanders called the Orotchys:—The huts of these islanders, who call ...

    Article : 413 words
  11. GOLD IN SEA WATER.

    Gold, said Professor Egleton the other day at the New York Academy of Science, has hitherto been considered by chemists as one of the most insoluble substances in nature, but in reality it is ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. RACE BETWEEN A SCULLER AND SHARK.

    Warren Smith, the American sculler, whilst practising on Bedford Basin near Halifax, the other day, was pursued by a shark, which several times tried to seize the boat in its jaws. The ...

    Article : 274 words
  13. FROUDE ON THE IRISH DIFFICULTY.

    London, October 12.—Mr. Froude, the historian, has written to an Irish gentlemna a letter which is printed in THE TIMES to-day. He says: —The present state of things cannot last, and ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. "DIED BY POISON."

    The jury in the Goeraenoase, after being out all night, returned n verdiet this morning of murder in the first degree. Dr. Goeraon did not manifest the slightest emotion when the result was ...

    Article : 433 words
  15. A STEAMER BURNED.

    Nofolk, Va., October 2, 1880.—This afternoon, about 4 o'clock, an accidental fire broke out among the cotton stored in the forward hold of the Old Dominion Steamship Company's steamer ...

    Article : 555 words
  16. MURDEH AND SUICIDE.

    Detroit, Mich., September 20.—A terrible tragedy occurred at the residence of Andrew Tiffany, about two milels west of Janesville, Hillsdale county, on Sunday afternoon. Henry ...

    Article : 195 words
  17. MR. REDPATH'S RED REPUBLICANISM.

    Mr. Redpath is a Republican, of the most uncompromising order. As a Republican he whips. Mr. Jefferson Brick out of his boots, if we may be allowed for the moment to adopt such a mode of ...

    Article : 486 words
  18. DUEL BETWEEN INDIANS.

    Denver, Col., September 15.—The Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN publishes an account of a duel between a Ute Indian and a Navajo, which took place last Thursday. A few friends of the Indians ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. A FAMILY POISONED.

    PIttston, Pa., September 20.—The family of J. D. Carl, of Pleasant Valley, consisting of himself, his wife, and one child, also Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, of Mill Creek, together with a hired girl, ...

    Article : 82 words
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