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Show TELEGRAPHIC. GAG AND GIBBET FOR GUITEAU. Washington, Dec. 26.-Corkhill received, to day, by express from Kansas, a package found to contain a very ingeniously devised gag for Guiteau, which was made out of a corn cob. Scoville is in receipt of several letters; one contained a miniature gibbet with Guiteau suspended upon it. Another contained a number of liver pills labelled "wholesale advice for Guiteau." DISEMBOWELED. Cincinnati, Dec. 26.-Special dispatches report the brutal murder of a man named Black, Deputy Tax Collector, last Friday afternoon, at Hamilton, Boone Co., Ky. Mitchell Rich and Pascal Lampkins had quarreled over a trifling matter at a saloon and Lampkins cut Rich, not seriously. Black, as an officer, interfered to keep the peace, when Lampkins literally disemboweled him. Lampkins escaped by swimming the river amid a shower of bullets fired at him. STILL FAVORABLE TO CANNON. New York, 28.-Tribune's Washington: The Utah contested election case presents some perplexing features, and some of the best lawyers of the House are in doubt as to the course they ought to take in regard to it. The subject is likely to give rise to an interesting debate, when the resolution to seat Campbell comes up in January. It is argued by some of Campbell's champions, in Congress that the offending clause in the Governor's certificate is merely a piece of explanatory information thrown to parenthetically, being true, but still unnecessary, and therefore does not vitiate the certificate. In reply, it will doubtless be said that without the clause mentioned the certificate would be a falsehood, since it is notorious that Campbell had a majority of the votes cast. It is not improbable that both contestants will be rejected Campbell, because of his defective certificate, and Cannon because he has none. There is a strong determination among congressmen to take vigorous measures to suppress polygamy, but several of those who are most earnest in this design say there must be no trickery, and that the cause would only be weakened by seizing an unfair advantage. There is also well grounded fear that by recognizing the governor's right to judge of the eligibility of a candidate for Congress a precedent would be established which would give rise to endless trouble in the future. INHUMANITY. JERSEY City, Dec. 27.-J. M. Leary, who was recently sent to San Francis Hospital for alcoholism, being seized with the worst form of small pox, and refusing to go to the pest house, was allowed to go home. A friend persuaded him to go to the police station and he ?? him along through the streets. The police, on hearing of his approach, barred the door, and he was deposited on the sidewalk where he died and was soon surrounded by a large crowd, mostly children. A cloth was laid over his face but was several times lifted by the curious children. The friend who was with him was locked up for trying to get into the station to see the officers. DIABOLICAL DEED. Ashland, Ky., Dec. 27.-Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gibbons, who reside near this town, went visiting, last Friday night, leaving their daughter, 14 years old, Miss Emma Thomas, 17 years old and a son of Robert Gibbons at the Gibbons homestead. During Friday night some villains came to the house, outraged both the girls, saturated their clothing with oil, set the house on fire and killed young Robert Gibbons who was attempting to give the alarm. All ?? open with a hatchet. No clue to the murderers. A thousand dollars reward is offered for their capture. The Gibbons house was burned to ashes, only the chimney being left standing. THE BACHELOR FATHER. Washington, Dec. 29.-There has been a good deal of chatter about the new Minister of Great Britain here, being a bachelor and not a father of children. The fact is Great Britain never commissions a man to high office whose social record is not good. The present Minister, when a young attache of the British Legation at Madrid married an estimable Spanish lady not of equal rank, lived happily for years, and recognized her as his wife. Although the court journal never announced the marriage, he was legally married. The whole story originated form the fact that since his wife's death he lived single. METROPOLITAN MALADIES. New York, Dec. 26.-Scarlet fever is increasing in this city at an alarming rate. According to returns it is unusually malignant. For the week ending Dec. 17th, 214 cases were recorded and 64 deaths. The number of deaths during the following week from that disease was 82. On Saturday 17 persons died from the same cause, on Sunday 8, and to-day 17. Chicago, Dec. 26.-The small pox seems to continue in the city at the same rate of mortality and increases as heretofore. One of the chief causes is that the country towns send their cases to this city for the authorities to care for. One man was discovered in the outskirts of the city, who had been taken with the disease while working on a farm in Du Page county, and had at once been hustled off on foot to Chicago. His face was a mass of blotches, and he was steering for the pest house. The disease has broken out at the county hospital, three cases being discovered there. They of course were taken away and all visiting at the hospital has been interdicted for the present. TRIPPLE [TRIPLE] MURDER. Chattanooga, Dec. 25.-A family row at Helenwood, this afternoon, resulted in the shooting of six men, three of whom are dead. Helenwood is a mining town off from the railroad, and particulars cannot be learned to night. THE "WEST POINT" CATASTROPHY. Richmond, Va., Dec. 27.-The West Point explosion is unaccounted for. It occurred near the forward hatch and the vessel was instantly in flames. The twelve colored men in the hold were killed or burned to death. Five others jumped overboard and four were drowned. The steamer was cut loose, when it was found impossible to save her and she drifted two miles up Damunky River, where everything burned except her iron hull, which broke amidships. Her chief stevedore was L. S. Bradford. Among the killed is Peter Geoghegan, of Baltimore. Her first officer and Wm. Bulsannon were badly burned. Eighteen of the ninteen dead are colored. Three others were injured. |