The daily gazette., 1878-10-30
SECOND EDITION
General News.

The schooners Presto and Persia and
the bark NJ oore are ashore near life-boai
station No. 8, Grand Haven, Mich. The
three crews were saved by help from the
life station.
The fair of the Virginia State Agri-
cul ural Society commenced at Rich.
mond yesterday. The exhibition is equal
to any former years. Many Northern ex-
hbitors are present.
! Ernest Clemens, Isaac Barrows, David
Sweeten Charles Schaffer and james
Davidson, ringleaders in the lynching OF
| Edward Freeman at Ansonia, Conn,
October 4, have been arrested.
, A deputation of Irish Catholics waited
on the Hon. Mr.. Mason, at Montreal,
Canada, yesterday. and asked that Mr.
p. Ryan be taken into the cabinet as the
representative of the Irish Catholics in
Quebec.
! Depositors of the plundered Manhattan
Savings Bank III New York have been
notified that their money is all right, and
will be paid if needed at the end of sixty
days. No arrests of the burglars have yet
been made.
| The health of Florida during the past
summer has been remarkably good. Not
a single case of yellow fever has occurred
in the Stale, with the exception of very
few among the shipping at Key West, IN
the extreme southern portion of the
State.
Forty-one birds killed out of forty-two,
was the feat accomplished by Mr.. Macal-
lister, of the Philadelphia Gun Club, on
score on record. He defeated Mr.. Car.
rol Livingston by dozen birds.
| The action of the Pennsylvania rail.
| 4 l..
delphia, NJ Monday, as to the carrying out
of the funding scheme adopted by the
stockholders in March last, will not be
made public until after the 1st prox.
Three tramps entered the house of
Thos. Lannon, a farmer, near Parkers-
burg, West Va, Monday, and, being re-
| fused food, knocked down the farmer's
daughter. beat his wife, stole everything
that could be of use to them and decamp-
ed.
A rain lessened the attendance at the
Georgia State fair in Macon yesterday
The race track was heavy The winners
were Whirlwiud, one mile, run in 1.54t I:
Kendall Jackson, troting, best time 2.4o;
Oracle, D., trotting, best time 235a.
The Lehigh Coal exchange, at its meet
ing in Philadelphia yesterday, decided
to make no change in its prices for coal.
It was agreed 10 nom meeting OF oper-
ators at Bethlehem, Pa, Monday to dis
cnss the question of the continuance of
the combination.
The trustees of the Jay Cooke estate
at Philadelphia began yesterday the sec
und distribution Of fassets-cash per cent;
one and half shares of preferred North
ern Pacific stock to every $1,000 of
claims; three fourth shares preferred st.
Paul and Duluth ditto, and one and a.
fourth shares common stock ditto.
The United States attorney for Texas
telegraphs to the Attorney General at
Washington, in regard to the arrests in
Montgomery county, in that State, for
political offenses, that they were made
principally upon complaint of persons
prominently identified with the green
back movement, and not ON complaint of
In the Fltz John Porter case at New
York yesterday, after quite an excited
the president of the board of
inquiry decided that inasmuch as Gen.
Pope refused to appear before the board
unless subpenaed, and President Hayes
would not order him, the board had ex-
hausted its powers, and did not deem it
expedient to take further action in the
matter to obtain his attendance. Docu-
mentary evidence in behalf of Porter,
and showing Pope's inconsistencies, will
be submitted to-day.