The Grange advance., 1874-09-09

i. mlNNESOIA, WE'D
yesterday retained as counsel for Beecher
in the suit Of Tilton. ID Donaldson's large
balloon, with six reporters on board, passed
over Philadelphia southeast into New Jer-
sey at SIS P. N. yesterday. It was an
chored at Waterford, N. j., for the night.
....A large building belonging to the
Clark Thread Company, at Newark, N. j.,
was burned yesterday; loss e57, 600. ..
The first Of the new U. S. iron sloops Of
war was launched yesterday at Chester, Pa
49,. The third season of the Louisville (Ky.)
Industrial Exposition opened last evening
with an attendance of 5000 people.
The Governor of Louisiana has called ont
an extra regiment of State militia, to be
composed Of picked white men. n... Work
has been resumed in all the Pennsylvania
colleries. -. The Peoples Party held rati-
ication meeting in New Orleans laat night,
in front of the Varieties Theatre. Two
thousand persons were present. .. A new
kind of epizootic has broken out with great
violence at St. John, N. B. The St.
George Cricket Club Of New York beat
badly the Montreal Club at New York yes
terday. .~ ;s,. a.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 3.-rhe Peoples
State Convention of Missouri met at Je&er-
son City yesterday. WIN. Gentry was
nominated for Governor. The platform
deals only with local politics. .. The dis
patches this morning confirm Poland's
defeat in Vermont, and state that the Re.
publicans have elected their S ate officers
by about the usual majorities. .. The Ne
brsska Republican State Convention met
yesterday at Lincoln, and spent the day in
squabbling. Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon
has contributed . paper to the .lnde-
pendent on the Brooklyn scandal. He
abuses Tilton and Moulton, but does not
acquit Beecher. "A railroad convention,
under call Of the Peoples Freight Railroad
Company Of Pennsylvania, Issued upon
circular of the New York Cheap Trans
portation Association met in Mount Ver-
non, Ohio, yesterday. Tie object ofIthe
convention was to perfect an organization
in each Of the States of New jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and illinois. to
push forward the survey of the test line
tor the eonstrd dction Of a cheap freight rail-
way between the Atlantic seaboard and
the Mississippi River. {. . Goldsmith Maid
beat her best time at Mystic Park, Boston,
yesterday, and trotted mile in 2:l4 for a
premium OF g., 500, amid great enthusiasm.
People are fleeing from the villages At
the foot Of Mount Etna, as the eruption
shows no signs of abatement. The Mar.
quis Of Ripon has resigned his position OF
Grand Master OF Freemasons, and will be
succeeded al interim, by the, Prince ,ol
Wales. -Four hundred Mormon recruits
sailed. from Liverpool, Bound for Salt Lake
City. The civil guards over Bazaine,
who were arrested at Ste. Marguerite on
the charge Of conniving at his escape, have
been released. -. The sale Of ten Bona
partist journals, all published in the
French provinces, has been prohibited by
order Of the F French Minister of the Inter-
ior. IAN explosion occurred Yesterday
[ in coal mine at naur in Belgium. It is
feared that but lew of the miners. who
were At work at the time can be saved =.
Senior Raseon, Spanish Minister at Berlin,
delivered his credentials to the Emperor
William yester erday. Two hundred men
Of the Manitoba mounted police force have
deserted, many taking their horses with
them. This 50 weakens the force that it
will probably be obliged to return 10 Fort
Garry without expelling foreign traders
from their entrenched positions on the
Saskatchewan. -. The National Associa.
ton Of Insurance Commissioners met al
EDetroit, Mich, yesterday. ). AT the open
ing Of the Cincinnati Industrial Expositicn
yesterday, the military parade vas viewed
by l0o, 600 people. Business was gener-
orally suspended anda fine review, fire.
eMofs, etc., we're given. !. The Bishop o1
Yucatan has issued an order excommuni.
eating all Catholics who contract civ,
marriages. =. .AtitriliS ahvfe sEst.te Ithat
July 1lth, near Bird 1sland, The Ansrfea,
bark Sierra Nevada and brig George H
HPeck So1ndsd, and the latter snnk imme.
diate.Y, The officers and crew were saved
-. tn boiler ii shippen's stave mill =
{xsadville, p, ,explod esninI
kPhlip ua6k, aged 45, was inst4ntly kille,
ai,u sevsral other persons tnjjunrsd. II
| mill was completely dsnelishs, md Ii