The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Itoms OF Interest from Home and Asro.d

demonshed during tornado. The voting
OF the Episcopal standing committee of the
United States has resulted in the confirmation
OF DR.. Jaeger and the rejection Of DR.. De
koven.... james Gordon, white, and Charles
Ramsey, colored, were drowned by the cap
sizing Of a boat in the Savannah river.
Mrs. Avah Gose died in Amherst, N H., at the
age OF los years, one month and nineteen days.
......T The United States national bank circula-
hon now outstanding amounts to s349, ,462, ,S6l,
OF which amount 81, ,Ss9, 600 are notes issued in
gold banks. An Indian 123 years of age
and believed to be the oldest inhabitant of the
earth, died at Santa Cruz, Cal. The Mexican
government is said to have given satisfactory
assurances to the United States in respect to
the massacre at Acapulco. 1t condemns the
crime and promises to prevent other out
breaks. "A mass meeting OF thirty thou
sand Irishmen was held in Hyde Park, London,
and resolutions demanding the release Of tho
Fenian prisoners were passed
Stacy Atkinson, Of Mount Holly, N. J.,
slipped on the ice, and the contents Of gun
he carried killed him instantly Mrs Often
dorfer, proprietress of the New York &aats
Zett'ng meditates the founding Of a home
at Astoria for aged persons. -. H L. Bate
man, the well-known American theatrical
manager, died in Londen -. On Saturday
while some fifty persons and several teams
were on the ice bridge at Quebec it broke
loose and floatod up the river with the tide.
All were landed safely some distance above the
city on Monday morning. 49,. Senator Albeit
introduced bill into the New Jersey Legisla-
ture confirming the sale Of the Stevens battery
to John Roach, Of New York, for S1O5,
THE projected fusion with the Car
Lists has proved failure. Only eight Of the
insurgent chiefs followed the action of General
Cabrera in giving in his adhesion to the gov
ernment of King Alfonso. . The tornado in
Georgia did more damage than was first re-
ported. Five lives were lost, and much property
WAS destroyed.
dispatch from Georgia referring to the
terrible tornado there says The tornado was
preceded by dull heavy roaring as Of heavy
artillery. 1t spent its fury in about three
minutes. An eyewitness says the senses were
utterly deadened and appalled,. There was
crash, roar, and the minglng Of hundred
terrific and unearthly sounds. The destruction
Of pre- operty is immense, and the list of killed
and wounded appalling. 80. The United States
Senate, by a vote of thirty-three to twenty
three, passed the Republican caucus indorse-
ment OF President Grants action in reorgani-
zing the Kellogg government in Louisiana . =.
Hayt is in the market for a loan Of Sl2, 900, ,O00
......At Lowell, Mass, Mrs. Sarah Low, q
young marr-ed women, was mortally wounded
by her husband, Charles ]. Low, who fred two
ehots from revolver into her head and then
killed himself with . remaining charge. Mrs.
Low was domestic in the family, and had fed
from her husband in New York State. He
pursued her to that city and killed her because
she refused to live with him. An alarming
death rate is reported among the colored resi-
dents of Washington, d. @. The rate shows
from fifty to seventy-five per one thousand per
annum above the rate among tho white popula.
tion, which is attributed mainly to the want of
proper food and protection from the cold.
In Prince George county, Nd, q negro, who
had committed a fearful crime upon q married
lady, was hung to tree within one hundred
yards of where the crime was committed
A bill is before the New York Legislature
requiring all notices and citations issued by
surrogates, and now required to be published
in the State paper, to be published in q news
paper printed in the county in which the surro-
gate issuing such notice or citations resides,
instead of the State paper. -. The United
States Treasury department has affirmed the
decision Of collectors imposing duty at fifty per
centum on brandy costing over "a per gallon {;
ON silks, wearing apparel, and head-nets at
sixty per cent. ad valorem disallowing all
damage by breakage ON wines beyond FIVE per
eentum, as provided by act Of February 8; dis
allowing damage by freezing occurring to wines
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great fire in Osaka, Japan, in February.
Twelve hundred buildings were destroyed, in
Guiding temples and schools. Several lives
were lost. There was also an alarming fire in
Yokohama. Three hundred Japanese houses
were destroyed. "A grange Of Patrons Of
Husbandry has been organized in New York
CITY. ....A party of forty Indiana editors have
been making an excursion through the South
west. Charles K. Landis, who shot editor
Carruth, at yineland, NJ J., was born in Phila-
delphia, on the 16th of March, 1884, and is
therefore in his forty year.
The New York State Assembly passed a
resolution authorizing the Governor to appoint
commission to investigate the canal matter,
ressrving for the Legislature the appointments
by the Speaker and Lieutenant Governor of q
Joint Legislative committee Of investigation.
The Attorney-General Of Pennsylvania has ex-
pressed an opinion that Good Friday con-
tinues to be legal holiday under the act of
1868, which was not repealed by the act of
1873. 1.-The German government contem-
plates an amendment Of the law in regard to
the Jesuits, so as tomake it operative against
other religious orders. %. General Csmpos
has defeated the Carlsts again at Huguet,
near Rdaura. The Carlists contemplate an
attack ON Puycerda :. Fourteen Of the finest