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LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. HOME NEWS. Wants to Face the Music and Take the Punishment. Another Revenue Official Indicted at St. Louis. ST. Louis, Nov. 13.-Arthur Gunther, Revenue Agent, indicted for receiving money to withhold information of whisky and tobacco frauds, plead not guilty, and was held in $5,000 bail Col. Joyce has withdrawn his motion for s new trial and asked for judgment. He says he is tired of being passed backward and forward for the benefit of others, and that he is ready to face the music and take the punishment. WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 18.-Rev-Jas. B. Miles, D. D., Secretary of the American Peace Society, and General Secretary of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of the Nation, died here this morning after two days illness. NORWICH, CT., Nov. 13.-The Santinet Mill at Plainfield, R. I., has been burned. Loss, $60,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.-The Revenue steamer Walcott, cruizing for survivors from the Pacific, was boarded in Barclay Sound from the Indian village by a man claiming to be first mate of the ship Orpheus. He said she had been run into the previous Thursday evening by a steamer, was wrecked, and the following Saturday the crew got ashore safely. Capt. Sawyer, of the Orpheus, subsequently boarded the Walcott, and says the Orpheus will prove a total wreck. There is no hope of finding any more survivors from the Pacific. The $30,000, gold, race for 4 mile heats was postponed on account of rain. HUDSON, N. Y., Nov. 13.-Eliza A. Stone was acquitted of the charge of poisoning her husband. The case of Daniel G. Bosworth, who was indicted as an accessory, was nolle prosequied. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13.-The sloop-of war Antiedam, commenced 11 years ago, was launched to-day. PITTSBURG, Nov. 13.-Joseph Sansberry, who was indicted for killing Col. Butler in 1864, has been acquitted. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 13.-The jury in the case of the United States against William Linoot Geo. Meffert, John Owan and Geo. t Hall, charged with conspiracy against the I Government and with intimidating Willis Russell, Acting U. S. Marshal, in the disa charge of his duties, returned a verdict this t morning of guilty as to Linoot and Meffert, c but recommended Meffert to the mercy of t the Court on account of his ill health. The k men are all implicated in the Owen kuklux outrages. it TRENTON, Nov. 13.-The limited express h for New York from Philadelphia was off f the track at Stillham Junction, near this f city, at 2:26 o' clock this evening, and stopped all travel up to 7:30 this evening. No t one hurt. The express struck a freight train that was crossing the track. o NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 13. - -The run on the Dime Savings Bank continued to-day. and was met by prompt payments. At the t regular hour for closing the crowd was unU abated, when the President announced that t the bank would re-open as usual at 7 o'clock next morning.