The daily gazette., 1877-04-09
General News.

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Navigation on the Delaware and
hudson Canal will be resumed on
Thursday next. The coal freights re-
main the same as last season.
1t is said in official quarters in
Washington that the proclamation cal
ling an extra session of Copgress on the
4th OF June may be issued this week.
General John Pope, U. 8. A., arri-
we'd in Washington on Saturday night
from Fort Leavenworth, and was in
yited to dine with the President last
evening. II
| In Memphis, on Saturday, L. H.
Coe, who killed NJ. M. Beach, was ad-
mltted to bail in the sum of 925, 900.
cleveland Clark, charged with being
accessory to the shooting, was held in
Ex-Governor Yarmouth is reported
TO have made speech in the Packard
Legislature on Saturday advising the
members to abandon their organiza-
ton and take seats in the Nichols
Legislature.
The Sixth National Bank in New
York was entered by burglars last
night, who broke open the safe CON
tanning silver coin. They carried off
about 81, $500. The safe containing the
banks surplus was untouched.
James E. Goode, job printer doing
state work, was sentenced. in Rich
mond, Va, last Saturday, to nine
months imprisonment and the pay
ment of $500 fine for shooting w. E.
Jones. rival bidder for the public
printing.
Mrs. Sidney Miller, wife of Joseph
Il. Miller, the man who was murder.
ed near Lebanon, Pa, last week has
been committed to prison by the coro-
ner to answer the charge of willful
murder. The victim was buried yes
terday and his funeral was attended by
nearly 5000 persons,
The Reading Pa.) Railroad Com
psny on Saturday suspended all the
brotherhood engineers employed on
the Germantown and Norristown
branch, thirty-four in number, giving
them two days to decide whether they
will leave the Brotherhood. Seven
teen had been discharged before.
Rev. DIR. VIM. Augustus Mullen berg
died in st. Luke's Hospital. New
York, at 1920 last night. His ceath
has been expected for several days
past, and he was surrounded by rela-
tives and friends in his last moments.
He was unconscious since Friday,
and was ill since the 22d Of February.
The Nashville (Tenn.) American
publishes an interview with Thomas
Simms, col9red man, captHred in
Boston in 1851, under the fugitive
slave act, when Gen. Devens was
United States marshal. Devens's
friends say he raised money and
brought Simms's freedom. This is
denied by " endell Phillips. Simms
says he was not freed until 1868 in
Mississippi, when he entered the fed
eral lines.
On the trial in New York by the
State committee of tie Universalist
Church, OF Rev. E. @. Sweetzer's
charges of imraoral conduct against
Rev. G. P. Mccarthy, the latter an
nounced that he would sue complains
ant for libel and all witnesses testify
ing wrongfully. For this threat he
was suspended, and Judge Donohue
now grants a mandamus to reinstate
him, saying that he simply asserted
his right as citizen to legal redress.
A statement having appeared in
Boston throwing suspicion on the story
of Mcguire, sole survivor of the brig
Roanoke, Capt. Corson, of the schooner
Annie Todd, who rescued Mcguire,
states that when he was taken from the
Roanoke he was nearly exhausted; at
no time did he correct his story or con-
tradict himself; all hands had been
drunk ON her and they had fought
amonglthemselves. The man who at
tempted to shoot the captain was drunk
and he also tried to ipjure Mcguire.
The story that there was a dead man
on the wreck with his upper lip cut off
saysi is false. The insurance
men believe Maguire's story and will
pay the loss. The rumor of mutiHY
and murder is without foundation.