Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Dec. 30, 1882 Louis D. THURMAN, Jas. J. WILSON, and Roman HUCK went to Springfield, Ill. again yesterday, as witnesses in the case U.S. vs. Chas. LAUER for selling counterfeit money. Nobel SCHAFER, who is now in this jail awaiting his trial for setting fire to Pat CUMMINGS' house, had LAUER arrested and the above named gentlemen are required to prove Nobel's character. It won't take them long to prove it negatively, for, as Jim said, Nobel never had any to prove. He who owns a well filled smoke-house, will do well to fasten the same with diverse heavy padlocks, lay a half-dozen of mantraps and keep a bull-dog around the premises, for there are those who think it no sin to carry off their neighbor's hams and sausages with-out previous permission. The same is to be said about henroosts; for invitations have been given for several parties, and some boys have the queer notion that a stolen chicken will make the best bouillon. For our part, we can rest quiet; a loaded blunderbuss and a fierce bloodhound would afford the amplest protection, even if the smoke-house wasn't empty. In the night of Dec. 6, H.A. DOWN, the proprietor of a saloon South of the Court House in Ironton, knocked Peter PROUGH, foreman for the Pilot Knob Company at the Buford Mountain Mines, with a large bottle over the head, and PROUGH died of the effects next morning. A jury was impaneled, the body examined, but the inquest was put off. Dr. GOULDING and PATTON held a post mortem examination and gave as the cause of the death that blood had entered the brain through the right temple bone. The membrane of the brain was torn, over and behind the ear, but the skull not fractured. It seems that the killed man habitually frequented the saloon and was intoxicated at the time of the deed. An altercation ensued between him and the son of the proprietor when the latter came from behind the bar and dealt the fatal stroke. From that moment to his death PROUGH never spoke. He was 35 years old and well kknown in Ironton; he leaves wife and children. DOWNS was arrested and is now in prison.