The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-11-21

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nor McClellan's thanksgiving procla.
nation recommends that in the churche.
OF New Jersey the opportunity be Civ
en- everyone to make an offering Of
money for the relief of the fever suffer.
ers, both as thanksofferlng to God
for abundant mercies toward us and as
a pledge of our fraternal love to the
afflicted fellow-citiZens of the South.
New YORK, November IS. - Elk.
Mayor A. Oakley Hall has assumed the
post Of city editor on the New York
World.
TORONTO, November 1S.-A cable
special to the Globe from London SAYS,
with hardly an exception, the English
journals, both daily and weekly, have
editorials expressing, on the occasion
of the Governor Generals departure,
kindness of feeling for the prosperity
of the Dominion and personal success
to his Excellency's mission.
The Times editorally announces the
payment on the twenty second instant
Of the Halifax fishery awards. 1t &C
cepts the approaching settlement as
additional assurance that no iusupera-
BILE difficulty will he found in arrang-
Ing other questions now disputed be-
tween the two governments. Regula-
tions binding all fisheries alike must be
made and must not be inconsistent
with the treaty rights The only ques-
ton is whether the initiative of max
ing shall be left to local Legislatures or
reserved for JOINT authority appointed
by the two central governments.
LONDON, November 1S.-A part of
Norwich has been inundated by q
freshet on the river Wensum. Two OF
its most densely populated districts
are several feet under water. The
Easements OF al factories, warehouses,
granaries and dwellings along the
course of the river ale flooded. One
or two deaths by drowning are report.
ed. -Four or five miles of streets are
submerged, and three or four thousand
dwellings rendered unInhabitable.
The result ia vast pecuniary damage.
The authorities are maintaining the
homeless poor. The flood is the con-
sequence OF fortnlght's continued
rain.
HoUsToN, Tex, November 1S.-The
reports thar the State fair had been
postponed on account of the weather
are false. The fair opens Wednesday
with every indication of success.
NICKsBURG, November 1S.-Capt.
n. 7. Handy died of yellow fever at
Delta, Louisiana, this morning. How
ard Farrar, sheriff of Madison parish,
IS II Il critical condition. He is not
expected to live through the night.
New ORLEANS, November 1S.-The
newly elected city administrators were
indicted into office to-day.
For the forty eight hours ending at
G P. NJ. there were ten deaths from yell
low lever recorded with the board of
health, with dates of deaths as follows
November Ia, l fifteenth, 9; sixteenth,
l seventeenth, s. eighteenth, 1. Total
to date, 4015. No new cases reported.
The mortuary report for the week end
ing at p. NJ. shows 135 deaths, IN
GLIDING 20 from yellow fever and z
from other fevers.
NEW YORK, November 1S.-The
police to-day say nothing new in
either the Stewart body robbery or the
Manhattan bank robbery. No new
arrests of suspicious persons have been
recorded.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 49,
Jacob Dewitt, prominent farmer,
was shot and fatally injured yesterday
by a neighbor named Ingalls,, during a
dispute about the amount of road tax.
NEW YORK, November 1S.-An in
cendiary fire in the well-known Full
ton market destroyed property to the
amount of 1925, 900.
A largely attended meeting of cabi-
net makers was held.yesterday with a
view OF striking for an increase of TWEEN
ty per cent. on the present wages.
Their are over 5000 men engaged in
the trade who complain of wages being
too low. Encouraging reports were
read of success of their striking fell
low workmen In Western cities.
HARRIsBURG, Pa, November 49,
Ia accordance with an opinion of the
Attorney General Governor Hsrtranft
decided to-day to issue q warrant fol-
the execution on the eighteenth of De-
cember next, of the notorious Mollie
Mcguire, John Keogh, who was con-
victed for the murder of T. w. s.
L9ngdon, in SchuYlkill county, in
1862. Warrants were also issued for
the execution on the same day of w.
Bergen, of Schulykill county; Charles
Sharp and James U'Donnell, ofConbar
county, and Alexander Sayres, of Phila-
WASHINGTON, November IS In the
Supreme Court to-day decision was
made in the case of the Western Union
Company v. Davenport, the
question being whether a joint stock
company is liable to 40 individual
stakeholder for certificate of stock
which has been stolen from him, and
which the company, upon forged
power of attorney, has transferred on
it's books to another party. The court
holds that there can be no question as
to the right of such a stakeholder to
have his stolen shares replaced and a
proper certificate issued to him there
for and to receive all the dividends
which shall have accrued thereon since
the unauthorized transfer. The forgery,
it Is held, cannot confer any power
or transfer any right. The officers of
the company are the custodians of the
stock books and it is their duty to see
that all transfers of such are properly
made either by the stockholders them
selves or persons having the authority
from them. II on presentation of the
certificate the company Is in doubt as
to the authenticity of conveyance or
the indemnity of person it can require
the genuineness of the one or the
identity of the other to be satisfactorily
but in either case it must
act upon its own responsibility.
Neither the absence of blame on the
part OF the officers OF the company, iu
allowing an Unauthorized transfer OF
stock, nor the good faith of the puT-
chaser Of the stolen property, Will avail
Is "a answer to the demand OF the true
owner.
WASHINGTON, November 1S.-The
treasury balances to-day were coin
f930, 91S, 2Ss; currency, including the
en- millions fractional currency fund,
sf4, 40, 54s.
The superintendent OF the Reye-
nue. Marine Service in his annual
report recommends the provis-
on of 3 new vessel for use in the shoal
waters between Lske Ponchatrain and
Mobile Bay.
The American Munster to Mexico
avs, concerning the disastrous effects
IN that countrv of the recent decline in