West-Jersey pioneer., 1873-07-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Iowa Republicans in State Con
vention, on Wednesday, of last week
renominated Governor Carpenter and
most of the other State officers. The
resolution adopted declare it the duty
of the Republican party to protect the
people from all forms of oppression,
whether of monopohes, centralized OPP
preston, or any other; insist upon the
right and duty of the State to control
every franchise it grants; that the pro
ducing, commercial and industrial in
terests of the country demand cheap
transportation, and that abuses in rail
road management, excessive rates, and
oppressive discrimination should be
corrected by law; approve the measures
of the late Congress in exposing cor
ruption denounce all forms of official
misconduct; declare that officers embez-
zling public funds should be punished
under criminal law, and that it ought
to be the duty of every Republican to
oppose the election of bad and incom-
petent officials, whether upon our own
OF any other ticket, and denounce the
back k-pay act of the late Congress, as
well as the act of those who voted
against it, yet received the money, de-
manding the prompt and unconditional
repeal of the law.
SUDDEN DEATH OF Ex CHANCELLOR IA
BR1sK1E-A private despatch from Cal
ifornia was received at Jersey City,
June 28th, announcing the sudden death
of A. o. Zabriskie, Ex-Chancellor OF
New Jersey, which occurred on the cars
the night previous at Truckee, about
three hundred miles this side of San
Francisco while on his way home
The cause of death is said to have
been erysipelas of the stomach.
Mr.. Zabriskie was about seventy
years of age, and was one of the most
prominent lawyers in the state Hehas
been resident of Jersey City for
quarter of century, and for many
years was a large stockholder and a
director in the New Jersey Railroad
and Transportation Company.
A contract was made four years ago
by the Bay State Shoe and Leather
Company with the authorities of the
New Jersey State Prison for the use Of
the convicts there incarcerated, not to
exceed 400 persons in number, at the
rate of 80 cents per day for each per
son employed This contract expires
on the Both inst. A new agreement
has been entered into, by which the
Company will pay an advance of 25 per
cent. on the price heretofore given
They have placed $4,000 worth of ma
chinery in the prison, and the estimated
value of the convict labor is about ST.
100000 annually.
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GRANT 8 FATHER
Jesse R. Grant, father Of President
Grant, died at his residence in Coving
ton, Ky, of general debility, about
seven o'clock last night. The Presi-
dent, although expected in special
train, did not arrive at the time of the
death. Mr.. Grant was plain, hard
working, earnest and honest man, and
enjoyed in his declining years the
g1eat consolation of having seen his
son receive and administer the highest
honor and authority which the people
of the American nation can confer on
man.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, June 27.-J. M.
Patte, a well known lottery manager,
who has figured conspicuously in Oma
ha gift enterprises, was arrested here
Wednesday night on charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretences.
The charge is preferred by some of
the victims of the late Nebraska State
Orphan Asylum Gift Enterprise, in
which prizes were drawn but not paid.
Patte was taken to Omaha, last evening.
Washington's headquarters at Nor
ristown, New Jersey, was sold at auc-
ton on Wednesday of last week. The
property was purchased. by e1-Goyern
or Randolph, Mr.. Aedgerwoed Hon
George Halsey and General Hafstead,
of New York, for $4,000. The pur-
chasers intend to holdsit for the State
until the Legislature shall meet, when,
if so desired they will transfer it with
out profit
It is formally announced that the
Spanish Government will present a
bill for the Immediate abolition of sla-
very in Cuba, and the same political
privileges will be granted to the colony
as are enjoyed by the people of Spain.
We have been falsely promised some
thing of this sort SO often, that the
present announcement is not likely to
be received with any great degree OF
confidence.
The 'Major Reybold'' was disabled
by the breaking of a crank pin while
on her way down the Delaware on
Thursday of last week. The steamers
Getty of Bridgeton' and Perry took
off her passengers and landed them at
their various points of destination, and
the "Reybold'' was towed back to Phil
adelphia.
Hiram Powers, the famous American
Sculptor, died at Florence, in Italy,
in the sixty-eight year of his age. Mr..
Powers was native of Vermont, and
suddenly sprang into fame by his pro
duction of the ''Greek Slave" He was
acknowledged all over the world as one
of the foremost artists of the present
age.
The Philadelphians will celebrate the
Fourth on a grand scale. President
Grant and Cabinet, and hosts of other
distinguished people have been invited
to participate. The Centennial Com
mission have selected a site for the ex-
position of 1876, at West Fairmount,
which will be occupied this year.
J. Warren Gore, Esq, so long and
favorably known as the General Ticket
and Passenger Agent of the Camden
and Amboy has resigned his position
as General Passenger Agent of the
| stPhiladelnhia and Erie" and accepted