The Morning herald., 1878-05-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Floods are eausing great destruction II
Ceylon.
The fennsylvania Legislature adjournei
yesterday.
Another whale has BEEN washed ashore a
Long Branch.
The Italias Government proposes holdise
an International Exhibition in 1881.
There is an organized conspiracy to de.
throne the Sultan and restore Murad.
Dom Pedro win visit Europe again mex
month In order to attend the Exhibition.
In Baltimore On Thursday the prices 70,
Strawberries ruled lows to cents quar-,
IN lots.
lndiana's Greenback Labor Party de-
nounces standing armies and European
communism.
A colered jurymaA sat In the New Ysrl
Supreme Court Wednesday for the FIRST
time In the history Of the city.
Tho Gear win not in any case visit the
Psris Exposition, but some of the Grand
Dukes VIII, II circumstances permit.
Charges have been made by Mrs. Kettell,
Of Brooklyn, against the pastor of the
Bethel Mission of Plymouth Church.
Hon. Thomas O. Perrin died last week, at
Abbeville, s. G. He was the first signer OF
the South Carolina "Act of Secession"
Counterfeiters Of American mo- es are dis
tributing their bos us work amsug tourists
and emigrants England and France.
A color, d man, for the first time In the
history Of the New York city State courts,
took his seat In the jury box on Wednesday.
Frank slaviu's barn at Pro, .deuce, was
burn-d yesterday morning, and three trot,
ting horses, .uclud'1g Tide Cutter
rerishcd.
The National Democratic Committee re-
fused to pass resolution on THURSDAY.
saying that no attack upon President Hayes
Is proI osed.
Augustus L. Erb, Newark IN. J. lv-
ely stable keeper, shot bis son William
Wednesd ny because he was playing with
other beys in the hay loft.
The members OF the Bait more City Fire
Department are now wearing their new
summer hats, which a,e Of brown straw
and very light and comfortable.
Her Britanic Majesty's flagship Shah
called from Panama on tha 10Th inst, IT is
believed, for San Francisco, 10 look al er
Russian privateers in case Of war.
as night air wholesome 2" asks sp
anxious reader. It is, It is, If you K ep It
IN q dark place, but 1t spoils rapidly On tx
posure TO the suuljght.-[ Hawkeye.
A large party of Pennsylvania iron men
are now prospecting ia the Shenandoah
valley, with the view of making large pur>
chase of iron-ore lands in that section efthe
country.
On April % vesuvius gave signs of an
eruption. At brief intervals fame darted
from the crater. The flames are alternately
lurid and pale. The crater enits velume
Of black smske
Kohn's block, Hartford, took fir. at /
A. M. yesterday. An explosion at 13O A, M.
killed D. s. Camp, Chas. Harper and Jobr
II. Parks, and injured six Others. The
buildikg was destroyed.
A Virginia City despatch says that two
secret agents of the RI sstau government
are in this city to furnish let ers of marque
to privateer, the crew of which is to b.
raised here, the vessel 70 sail from San
Francisco.
Mis- Melissa Smith, the pi city daughter cf
the Hatterss Island, N. c., liehtaou e
keeper, was swept away from the islsud
into the sea by heal Wind and sv-f on
sundsy night. She VIZ, . have en- mar
ried the nezt day.
Governor Hampton. Of sout, Carolina,
restored to the widow OF General Custer
field glass belonging to the ceased SOL |
dler, which was captured by some of Hamp-
toms mon at the battle of Brandy Station |
during the late war.
Miss Fannie Potter Is said to be the lest \
rider in Washington. She is the daughte
Of general and she recently at a Sad
day Aoiree danced for an hour or two in /
riding costume, which must have been pic
buresque, II not convenient.
Three years ago measures were taken to
protect the salmon in the Delaware river.
Last week eight fine fish were caught In the
upper waters. and enc in a shad net near
Gloucester. II this thing will only keep on
lsh will soon bs one of our cheap meats.
Iowa had 1 1854, sos sheep in 1870, valued
It $4,000, 900. In 1877 it had only 31s ,43s
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