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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3214, 30 August 1879, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald.

PU3LISHEO BAIIY.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879.

The s.s. Orcti leaves the Manukau at noon this day, will arrive at Waitara to-morrow morning's tide, und leaves for Whanganui and Southern Ports on Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Thinking that he heard a burglar, a Kansas City man got out of bed, armed himself with a pistol, and went on tiptoe into an adjoining room. His wife followed him. The room was dark. The woman, nervous from fright, grabbed her husband about the neck, and he, thinking it was a thief, shot her dead. The death is announced of fiir Donald Campbell, of Dunstuffnage, Hereditary weeper of the Hoy al Castle of that nfimc, as being which he quartered on his shield azure a castle of threo towers argent. The litio dies with him. His family was descended from the same source as the Dukes of Argylc. Colonel John Hannah recently died at Hand Mountain, Ala., aged 13(5, if nobody has made a mistake in the reckoning, and the Knoxville (Ten.) 'Mhune says that the old man fought with Washington in the French and Indian War, and knew Patrick Homy when he was a bare-foot boy in Virginia.