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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. <br><br> Washington, Feb. [February] 12. Senator Garland reported a bill from the judiciary committee today amendatory to the present law relating to bigamy and polygamy. It imposes a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and not more than five years imprisonment upon every person who, as husband of one wife lives with, and hereafter marries another, and declares that any man who marries more than one woman is guilty of bigamy. This provision does not extend to any person whose husband or wife by such marriage is absent for five successive years and is not known to be living, nor to any person whose lawful marriage has been dissolved by a decree of a competent court. It provides that in any case of prosecution for bigamy any person drawn as jurymen may be challenged if he is or has been living in the practice of bigamy or polygamy, or if he believes it morally, religiously or legally right for a man to have more than one living and undivorced wife or to live in the practice of cohabiting with more than one woman. It also authorizes the President to grant an amnesty to offenders against the law for offences committed before Jan. 1st, 1879. ---- <br><br> MEMPHIS, TENN. [Tennessee], Feb. [February] 19. The extra freight train of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, which left here at midnight, collided with the bridge train coming north, near Courtland, Miss. [Mississippi], 69 miles south of Memphis. Conductor Gibson, of the bridge train, was killed; the engines o [of] both trains and several freight cars were badly damaged. No other casualties. ---- <br><br> NEW YORK, Feb. [February] 12 Trinity Episcopal church, 4th Avenue and 125th street, burned. The building cost $125,014, the insurance is $50,000. The organ cost $10,000. Insurance, $7,000. ---- <br><br> HANCOCK, VA. [Virginia], Feb. [February] 12. A desperate duel was fought between two young women here last Saturday, one being armed with a pitchfork and the other with a club. Both were terribly damaged and not expected to survive their injuries. The cause was jealousy on account of a young man. ---- <br><br> AT WESTPORT, CONN. [Connecticut], burglars entered a bank vault and got 3,300 dollars, when some villagers aroused by the explosion, scared them off. ---- <br><br> CINCINNATTI, Feb. [February] 12. An atrocious wife murder has been committed at Henderson, Ky. [Kentucky], last night. Pat Groham [Graham] who had been arrested on a complaint of his wife for beating her, broke jail and found his wife on the wharf boat. He shot her three times in the presence of the passengers of the steamer, Idlewild, killing her instantly, and then leaped in a skiff. ---- <br><br> WASHINGTON, Feb. [February] 13. The president has issued another proclamation similar to that of last year, warning interlopers not to trespass on Indian Territory, under pain of removal by military if necessary.---- <br><br> NEW YORK, Feb. [February] 13. The Herald relief fund yesterday contained the names of Jno. [John] McCullough, Fanny Davenport and Frank Mayo for large subscriptions, also the names of 130 congressmen, which is believed to be all there are in Washington. They gave precisely five dollars each in order to make the donation a representative one in every respect. ---- Bret Harte, it is reported, is about to resign his consulate and return. The German climate has not agreed with him and he has been far from well. ---- <br><br> NASHVILLE, Tenn. [Tennessee], Feb. [February] 13. A cyclone accompanied by lightning, thunder and heavy rain passed over this city at midnight. The wind blew at the rate of forty miles an hour. The spires of the First Colored Baptist, St. John's Colored [unreadable line] were blown down, also the inside? of a brick wall of the new custom house, the roof of Rhea and Son's elevator containing 20,000 bushels of grain were swept off. The third story of the Edgefield manufacturing company was blown away. The roofs of a large number of private residences were blown off, and the damage up to this hour, cannot possibly be estimated. The principal losses sustained by the storm of last night were as follows: Edgfield & Nashville Manufacturing Co., $20,000; Custom House, $14,000; First Colored Baptist Church, $8,000; St. Paul's $20,00. [$20,000] [$2,000]. The entire loss is estimated at $71,000. ---- <br><br> LOUISVILLE, Feb. [February] 13. At 5:30 p.m. today, the wind averaged a velocity of 42 miles an hour, blowing from the southwest. Within the last six hours the temperature fell 21 degrees, at 8 p.m. 36 and at 9 o'clock 34. Final rainfall for the day 1.89 inches, for 48 hours 3.42 inches. No damage is reported worthy of mention. At Frankfort, Ky. [Kentucky], the river is rising at the rate of a foot an hour. The lower end of the city is flooded, and before morning the water will be in the State house yard. The rise was never known to be so sudden. The loss of logs? etc., in the river will be very great. Reports to the Louisville Courier-Journal from the interior, are now to the effect that considerable damage has been done to outhouses and bridges.---- <br><br> 3LONDON, Feb. [February] 13. A collision at Tantak on the Egyptian government railway between the Indian passenger train from Suca? And the goods train, killed one engineer, and injured many of the passengers. Great damage was done [to] the rolling stock.---- <br><br> NEW YORK. Feb. [February] 14. Andrew Smith, of North Andover, Mass. [Massachusetts], the defaulting town treasurer, acknowledges that yearly, since first elected in 1869, he has converted the money of the town to his own use. The amount of the defaltation is $9,822. The coal miners at Westville, ??? County, on a strike for the past three months, have received notice from Drummond ??? Company to quit their houses by Monday. |