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JUDGE DAVIS REPUDIATED BY WORK
MEN.
BIunders of a L. S. Grand Jury.

BIunders of a u. s. Grand Jury.
NEW YORK, April 3-The Workingmen'
Central Union Labor Reform Committee elect
ed Geo. w. Gibson president, and adopted res
olutions repudiating the nomination of Judge
Davis for President.
Four city regiments and large number oi
officers will assist at Anderson's obseques.
1t is stated that several leading Southern Re-
publicans have been consulting on National
politics in the city the past few days, and have
addressed a note to Senator Sumner on the po-
itical prospects of the country, expecting to re-
ccive an answer to-day.
The L. S. Grand Jury committed a number
of blunders in their findings, Many of their
recent indictments for offenses charged against
several parties are now discovered to have been
| tried or settled long since. Indictments have
been found for offenses for which many persons
have been convicted and subsequently pardoned
by President Grant. \ man named johnson,
who has been dead several years, is among those
indicted.
The Sun of tkis morning has the following
Several leading Republicans from the South
ern States have been consulting together in this
city during the past few days as to the question
of national politics Most of them were deci-
ded at the start to go to the Cincinnati Conven-
| ton. Some are original Southerners and the
| others are among the strongest and best North
| ern men who have settled in the South since the
war, and who have always acted on the advice
of such men as Horace Greeley and Charles
Sumner. These gentlemen met yesterday in
the Fifth Avenue Hotel and decided to consult
Senator Sumner on the subject and to be infu-
cnced by his advice The dispatch of Sumner,
when received, will probably be of great inter-
est to Republicans all over the country, and es-
pecially to those of the South. We hope to
have it for publication tomorrow"
The President is here
The Spanish bark Pagusta has been abandon
ed at sea.
The schooner @. G. Brooks, thirty days out
from Jacksonville for New York lost her mate
overheard The sails and boats are all gone
and the crew out of provisions and water. A
new crew was put aboard with instructions to
work for Bermuda.
The funeral of Prof Morse takes place from
Rev. DIR. Adams Presbyterian Church Friday
morning He will be buried in Greenwood
Cemetery.
The Grand Jury of Richmond county found
indictments against nearly all the town officers
filed for perjury and frauds
The committee appointed to investigate the
Market Savings Bank have made a report in
which they say they do not deem it prudent to
disclose the entire result of the investigation,
but from the very government of savings
banks in this State, as partially exposed by
them, they conclude that the failure of other
savings banks is not impossible at any mo-
ment.
Dutch Henerich went to Sing Sing for ten
years this afternoon.
The colored citizens of New York and vicini-
ty celebrated the anniversary of the adoptian of
the Fifteenth Amendment to-day. About FIVE
thousand men were in procession. There were
no disturbances,
CHARLESTON, S. c., April 3.-The business
and professional men submitting to the lcen-
tious license laws of the ban now expose them
selves to the penalties. The exactions will yield
over $1,OOO,OOO.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, April 3.-Johnsons
cotton mills have been destroyed by fire. Loss
$15OOC0.
MILWAUKEE, April 3.-The fire last night
destroyed Dyers wholesale house and Seelner
& Browns dry good store. The loss amounts
to S15O,CGl. H
CHICAGO, April "a number of prominent
Republicans of Iowa have issued Il call for
mass meeting to appoint delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention,