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Show FORT WORTH, Feb. 26 -- Isham Capps, a negro, saw Thornton, a merchant, leave his residence this morning and snuck into the bedroom, where he assaulted the merchant's wife. Her screams brought the neighbors, who went for Thornton. The negro returned for a second assault, but the lady was rescued a second time. The negro dodged an axe sent flying after him, but was caught; he doubtless has been lynched before this. ---- NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Herbert Borrier and Andrew Coombs, who started from Boston on July 9th, to go to the Melbourne exhibition in a small decked boat, called Golden State, were brought yesterday, in the steamer city of ??, from Rio de Janeiro, after having narrowly escaped death by shipwreck and starvation, having encountered severe storms after leaving the Cape Verde Islands, and forced to steer for Brazil. The provisions gave out and they said that for twenty-five days they had only water and not one morsel of food. ---- BERLIN, Feb. 28 -- The entire Russian fleet in the Arab sea has been ordered into the Oxus to participate in Gen. [General] K????'s campaign against the Turcomans. ---- PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28 -- Three thousand armed Mussulmans are resisting the government in the Kirdjaly district, and Aleka Pasha, governor general of Roumelia [Rumelia] and ?? Pasha, governor of Adrianople, are conferring for a join repressive action. ---- OMAHA, Feb. 29 - The United States consul at Bradford writes that there seems no hope for the English farmers except on a reduction of rents while the wheat can be carried from Chicago to Liverpool for about 54 cents for one hundred pounds. The Spanish ministry intends preceding slowing with reforms in Cuba in order to avoid confusion. After the burning of the Academy of Forest Culture on the 21st inst. [this month], seven students were arrested and copies of a revolutionary paper found in their possession. ---- ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20 -- The rapid rise of the Mississippi river is causing great apprehensions. A portion of the levee below the Red river landing is gone. The commissioners have gone with a large force from New Orleans to the point of danger. ---- SILVER CITY, Idaho, March 1 -- The recent severe loss of stock in Matthews?, Jordon and Reynolds' creeks, winter rangers in Idaho and eastern Oregon. It is estimated that the loss already sustained in these and adjoining valleys reaches? Nearly twenty thousand and the losses still continue. ---- BERNE, Feb. 29 -- The work of ??? Mount St. Holland was satisfactorily completed at nine o'clock this morning. ---- LONDON, Mar. 1 -- At the enquiry into the Tay bridge disaster Feb. 28, several moulders employed by the contractors of the bridge, testified that the quality of the iron used for the castings was very inferior that the columns were frequently defective, of unequal thickness, cracked and scabbed and that the cracks and holes were filled with putty or cement and painted over. |