Show LATEST TELEGRAMS tho the thrusting in their sickles in nebraska democratic rifle shots settle quarrels in in I 1 south carolina kansas experiences another severe storm 13 hi na V UT eleZ ra lito to the her ami democratic kin shots washington july murder 0 of f col L W R aluir in camden SC S C on july ith ia is regarded by the south carolinians Carolin inns hero as a ft highhanded high handed political outrage the details of this atrocious murder and the shallow pretense of tile punishment of the murderer is given by a trustworthy correspondent who saya says col blair was entirely anarine unarmed d having nothing but his usual balki walking n stick and made no threat or aftem t to use even that ho was a brave old man 70 years old who was never known to commence a quarrel or take advantage of an ener enemy ny no instance can call be given in which he xe ever din dining ing his ii long life assaulted or shot any anyone one in in a personal quarrel lie ile did lid not threaten or attack tho the man who shot him the casus ball was purely political li tho the bourbons were his bitterest foes they had mobbed him in the tile presence of hampton ampton II kennedy co in 1880 when lie was the greenback caril candidate date for governor they had persistently persecuted and slandered him afterwards his arl private a c character fracter bein being irre irreproachable proa proa elia chable they y could not as assail ail it ilie rhe man who him kini was chairman of the democratic club an tin ex rebel captain halle had said and circulated it that blair had held mechin meetings s with negroes at night this was done to break his influence over liis his white adherents and to goad and irritate him blair had pronounced the tile man mail who had said it a liar this lie would not retract hallo is tho the erty party who should have withdrawn his is false utterance and first then blair could and would have withdrawn alie offensive epithet and no man mail would have done so more readily blair made mado no demand on hallo and on oil threat against him 1 I 1 follow the ex party democratic accounts strictly and you will fird them just as I 1 state halle shot him to death no liis his refusal shot five times in in as many seconds with a winchester rifle a sixteen S ter taken from the tile auditors office offic where it was conveniently at hand hand ready loaded the auditors office was not open for business a legal holiday but it was unlocked and hallo halle had the atee when ho he stepped into that office and closed it did blair follow him by no means when lie came out he lie had the murderous d weapon in liis hand did blair advance advance on him or attack him by no means blair was still standing where here lie left him in fro front I 1 it of the court house waiting forthe for the assembling of the people to hold a mass s meeting which had been duly advertised and where blair as leader feader of the Anti Bourbons was to have spoken blair had the people of liis his county organized and could not riot bo be derea defeated ted or answered except by democratic rifle shots storms in kunga kansas kansas july 14 particulars of storm come in showing that the damage was not overestimated the destruction was complete wherever the clouds struck several bad accidents are reported and ma many ny wonderful freaks of the wind but no deaths yet the damaia to erain wag very considerable prohibition lu in nebraska news from froin nebraska leaves little doubt that the state is ready to take up the question and are arranging for a vigorous pro prohibition hibi t ion campaign the whisky men while conceding an amendment would bo be adopted readily if submitted to the people hope to leat beat the measure in the legislature as they have already d done one and they have the tile support of most of the daily newspapers old shoestring JACKSON july 14 judge Jeff jeffards lords of issaquena Iss aqueno county ex judge of the supreme court was nominated to congress by the republicans of the old shoestring district under DUBLIN july 14 A special in the gazette issued this morning proclaims the counties of cavan leitrim long ford west meath sligo sli go roscommon Ros common alor mayo a ol 01 tipperary kilkenny waterford limerick bork cork clare kerry leith and dublin the cities of lim crich cork waterford kilkenny dublin londonderry galway aej and drogheda Drog heda and two baronies in monaghan and two in armagh under tile repression act illinois crops springfield ill july 14 the department part ment of agriculture reports report s the prospects encouraging fora large crop of rye the yield per acre acro large and the quality superior in the southern and central portions of the state the last census gave illinois bushels of rye or about one sixth of the entire count rys production and the crop will bo be nearly or quite as large as in ISSO 1880 I 1 church conflagrations DANVILLE ills 1118 july 14 about midnight last night N st patricks catholic church burned loss Lo 30 fully insured vast rast through biall washington july 14 postmaster general howo howe said today to day the press was mistaken in the announcement that the arrangement for a through fast mail between new york and san francisco had bad been completed na via baltimore and ohio cincinnati Cincinnat st louis kansas city and denver the error arises from the establishment of a nev new line of a double daily postal service over a portion of that route but no arrangement is yet comp completed letea for rea ching the pacific coast via denver I 1 the attempts however to secure a fast mail between these points are not yet abandoned notwithstanding the opposition of the tool roads west of chicago it may inay bool e possible possible yet to make arrangements sitf nth ahe the erie and wabash systems of course as long lorig as tile pool pool roads d c I 1 in 0 to accept th alie e governments terms it will be necessary to go tire around und chicago Chi caZo |